The use of AI to interfere with election integrity has been a
concern since the Microsoft-backed company released two
products: ChatGPT, which can mimic human writing convincingly,
and DALL-E, whose technology can be used to create "deepfakes,"
or realistic-looking images that are fabricated.
Those worried include OpenAI's own CEO Sam Altman, who testified
in Congress in May that he was "nervous" about generative AI's
ability to compromise election integrity through "one-on-one
interactive disinformation."
The San Francisco-based company said that in the United States,
which will hold presidential elections this year, it is working
with the National Association of Secretaries of State, an
organization that focuses on promoting effective democratic
processes such as elections.
ChatGPT will direct users to CanIVote.org when asked certain
election-related questions, it added.
The company also said it is working on making it more obvious
when images are AI-generated using DALL-E, and is planning to
put a "cr" icon on images to indicate it was AI-generated,
following a protocol created by the Coalition for Content
Provenance and Authenticity.
It is also working on ways to identify DALL-E-generated content
even after images have been modified.
In its blog post, OpenAI emphasized that its policies prohibit
its technology to be used in ways it has identified as
potentially abusive, such as creating chatbots pretending to be
real people, or discouraging voting.
It also prohibits DALL-E from creating images of real people,
including political candidates, it said.
The company faces challenges policing what is actually happening
on its platform.
When Reuters last year tried to create images of Donald Trump
and Joe Biden, the request was blocked and a message appeared
saying it "may not follow our content policy."
Reuters, however, was able to create images of at least a dozen
other U.S. politicians, including former Vice President Mike
Pence.
(Reporting by Anna Tong in San Francisco; editing by Miral Fahmy)
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