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Top AI expert 'completely terrified' of 2024 election, shaping up to be 'tsunami of misinformation' (fortune.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Top AI expert 'completely terrified' of 2024 election, shaping up to be 'tsunami of misinformation'::“I can’t prove that," says Oren Etzioni, professor emeritus at the University of Washington. "I hope to be proven wrong. But the ingredients are there."

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Had this in Argentina last year and I could bet even the "debate" was highly AI scripted

Edit, funny thing, it was not cheap... they estimate 15 kM US$

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

15 thousand million million?

= 15 quadrillion USD?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

15 billions, sorry... I got horribly lost in translation... in spanish billions is millions of millions and plural nouns in acronyms are marked with double letters. Like EEUU its Estados Unidos (united states).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No wonder they have inflation problems.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Once you start dividing by zero, your limit is the stars ✨️

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What wasn't cheap? The election...?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Massa's campaign was paid with money from the state. Here, during elections, the state pays part of the campaign of every party, but they went way above that number with the candidate of the ruling party