American Democrat Shamaine Daniels has hired an artificial intelligence (AI) campaign volunteer in her bid for Congress in the upcoming 2024 elections.
According to a report According to Reuters, Daniels is using "Ashley," which she says is the first political phone banker powered by generative AI technology from developer Civox. Although robocalls have been around for some time, none of Ashley's responses are prerecorded.
The report says it is built with technology "similar" to OpenAI's ChatGPT that allows Ashley to have an infinite number of personalized, real-time, one-on-one conversations with voters.
The AI โโcallbot has already reached thousands of voters in Pennsylvania as one of Daniels' campaign volunteers.
Civox CEO Ilya Mouzykantskii predicted that the use of AI callers will โincrease rapidlyโ and said they intend to make tens of thousands of calls per day by the end of the year.
โThis will come for the 2024 elections and it will come in a big way. ... The future is now."
Ashley was given a robotic-sounding voice and reveals that she is an AI robot when speaking to voters, although there are no legal requirements in the US that she must do so.
Civox has not revealed which exact generative AI models they are using, although they said they are using more than 20 different ones, both open source and proprietary. The robot was trained using data available on the Internet.
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Ahead of the 2024 US elections, the use of AI has become a controversial topic. In October, US senators proposed a bill that punish creators of unauthorized AI-generated information deepfakes.
Before that, companies developing artificial intelligence tools also implemented safeguards to stop the spread of false or misleading information. Google has done Reveal the use of AI in political campaigns. mandatory announcements.
Meanwhile, Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, prohibited the use of generative AI ad creation tools for political advertisers in early November.
A recent study by the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center, a research unit of Microsoft, revealed that Use of AI in social networks has great potential to impact voter sentiment.
Another study in Europe tested Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot, now rebranded as Copilot, and found that produced incorrect answers on electoral information 30% of the time.
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