California Attorney General Rob Bonta discusses Michelle Mack’s case in an interview on February 16, 2024.
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta warned executives at social media and other tech companies ahead of the November election to work harder to protect voters from “deception, intimidation and dissuasion.”
“Millions of Californians rely on social media and artificial intelligence services to obtain news and information about the upcoming election. It is most important that the platforms, products and services provided by your company are not abused to deceive voters and make them Understand your constitutional right to vote,” Bonta wrote in a post letter Wednesday to CEOs letter, Yuan, MicrosoftOpenAI, Reddit, TikTok, X and YouTube.
The letter recalled provisions of California law prohibiting interference with the right to vote by misleading people about where and when to vote and using intimidation tactics.
California law also “generally prohibits the dissemination, within 60 days of an election, of materially deceptive audio or video media of a candidate appearing on an election ballot with actual malice, with the intent to discredit the candidate or to deceive the candidate from voting.” Support or oppose a candidate,” Bonta wrote.
The letter comes after pop icon Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris for president after Tuesday night’s debate. Swift criticized those Popular artificial intelligence generated images mistakenly and stated that she had approved Donald Trump.
Trump shared a series of these images on his “Truth Social” platform. Additionally, X owner Musk An AI-generated image depicting Harris dressed as a communist dictator was recently shared.
“Kamala has sworn to be a communist dictator from day one,” Musk, who supports Trump, wrote on X on September 2. “Can you believe she’s wearing that outfit!?
Google’s Gemini, OpenAI’s Dall-E and Chat GPT, Microsoft’s copilot, and Grok, made by Musk’s xAI, all allow users to quickly generate images and text in response to prompts or questions. August, updated version xAI’s product Grok-2there appear to be few restrictions on creating false images of political figures.
