OpenAI Has a Surprising Defense Against Election Deepfakes - CNET

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One of the biggest problems of the AI age is that AI deepfakes are now so realistic that they’re practically indistinguishable from real photos. That matters a lot during election season, when voters are looking for reliable, truthful information on their candidates and polling sites. OpenAI is implementing a new safeguard to prevent people from making political deepfakes.

The US midterm election is only a week away on Nov. 3. Tech issues are taking center stage in many races, especially as AI and data center concerns rise for folks across the country. (Check out CNET’s guide to spotting political scams.)

If you were to go into ChatGPT today and ask it to generate an image “depicting election interference or that may discourage voting,” as OpenAI put it in an Oct. 20 update, the chatbot would create the image, given it doesn’t violate any other content guidelines. But it...

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