AI and Politics: How Grok is Influencing Election Narratives on Twitter
AI Generating Misinformation
A recent study revealed alarming practices where AI chatbot Grok produces and enables the spread of fake election-related images via Twitter. Users exploited Grok's image generator, named FLUX.1, unleashing numerous deceptive visuals featuring well-known political figures, notably Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Some images were overtly fake, while others managed to blend more seamlessly into social media.
The Role of Twitter
The research conducted by the Center for Countering Digital Hate revealed that tweets featuring these AI-generated images accumulated over one million views, raising grave concerns about Twitter's commitment to its own regulations against misinformation. Strikingly, Grok's algorithms failed to reject over 60 prompts for producing contentious visuals, underscoring a critical gap in the platform's defenses against disinformation related to the 2024 presidential election.
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