> OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has voiced worries about the use of AI to influence elections, but he says the threat will go away once “everyone gets used to it.” The

> OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has voiced worries about the use of AI to influence elections, but he says the threat will go away once “everyone gets used to it.” Then he's lying or a complete moron. People have been able to fake things for ages, since you can entirely fabricate any text because you can just type it. The same as you can pass on any rumour by speaking it. People are fundamentally aware of this. Nobody is confused about whether or not you can make up "X said Y". *AND YET* people fall for this stuff all the time. Humans are bad at this and the ways in which we are bad at this is extensively documented. The idea that once you can very quickly and cheaply generate fake images that somehow people will treat it with drastically more scepticism than text or talking is insane. Frankly the side I see more likely is what's in the article - that just as real reporting is dismissed as fake news that legitimate images will be decried as AI if they don't fit someones narrative. It's a super easy get-out clause mentally. We see this now with people commenting about how someone elses comment simply cannot be from a real person because they used the word "delve", or structured things, or had an em dash. Hank Green has a video I can't find now where people looked at a space X explosion and said it was fake and AI and CGI, because it was filmed well with a drone - so it looks just like fake content.