Is AI-generated disinformation a threat to democracy?

An essay on the future of generative AI on social media

We just published an essay titled How to Prepare for the Deluge of Generative AI on Social Media on the Knight First Amendment Institute website. We offer a grounded analysis of what we can do to reduce the harms of generative AI while retaining many of the benefits. This post is a brief summary of the essay. Read the full essay here. Most conversations about the impact of generative AI on social media focus on disinformation. Among the many positive and negative ways in which generative AI can be used on social media, disinformation has disproportionately received attention among…

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