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How Generative AI Could Influence the 2024 US Presidential Race

Irina Raicu, director, internet ethics, quoted by Emerging Tech Brew.

“I don’t think we have figured out how to manage the negative impacts of social media…and now we have this new technological wave to worry about,” Irina Raicu, who leads the Internet Ethics Program at Santa Clara University, said.

“All of the things we worried about with the impact of algorithmic feeds and how they shape political engagement are still there,” she explained. “Now they have this augmentation via generative AI, which can make the fake stuff more believable, easier to generate, faster.”

Irina Raicu, director, internet ethics, quoted by Emerging Tech Brew.

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