Tech giant Meta says that the fears that the world had regarding AI getting out of control and spreading election misinformation didn’t prove to be true.
Meta’s Nick Clegg shared his insights about content produced using AI and how minor of a role it played in spreading false data about global elections. It’s a fear that many experts and researchers had since the start, he explained.
It’s all thanks to the efforts made by companies to safeguard users and keep AI content minimal during the elections in 2024. As a result, it only made up a fraction of the misinformed data that fact-checkers caught and labeled as misleading.
The news is a huge win for all in the tech industry. Ratings proved that AI content related to politics, elections, and social issues also stood for 1% of all fact-checked data online. This was not only related to US Elections but those arising all over the globe, he continued.
It’s great to see how the fear and alarm about the issues were much more than needed as many thought AI could negatively impact results with billions heading to the polls in 2024. Such fears never ended up playing out as per Nick Clegg who heads Meta’s Global Affairs.
So many people were worried and rightly so, he adds. But from what Meta monitored and analyzed so far, risks never materialized in the way that many anticipated. It was all very minimal and modest, to say the least.
No specific stats were provided in terms of how much elected-based AI content fact-checkers caught in the moments before the elections arose. However, the firm does go through billions of content on a daily basis so even fractions do add up to a huge figure for posts.
Also read: Is Meta’s AI ‘Mistakenly’ Censoring Too Much? Company’s Top Executive Nick Clegg Says YesNick Clegg says Meta’s policies do deserve the right amount of credit for assisting the process including the features that differentiate real from AI with specific labels. Meta’s Image generator that uses AI blocked close to 590K requests for image creation of leading political figures.
Meta has also taken quite a few steps to separate itself from the world of politics as a whole. This includes altering default settings on apps like Threads and Instagram so as to put an end to recommendations for political material. At the same time, political news is de-prioritized on Facebook.
Meanwhile, Zuckerberg has mentioned previously that he didn’t like how a lot of misinformation policies came into being during the COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, the company is working to curb misinformation but at the same time, stop over-moderating to ensure accuracy and precision.
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