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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Mon Feb 19 2024 13:30:05

Top tech companies, AI developers and security firms sign anti-deepfake 
agreement to combat election interference

Date:
Mon, 19 Feb 2024 13:16:05 +0000

Description:
While this agreement is a step in the right direction, it's voluntary basis 
may leave many wondering about the safety of democracy.

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A wide range of leading tech companies have signed a voluntary agreement to 
combat AI-generated deepfakes that could be used for election interference by 
misleading voters. 

The agreement proposes that the signatories will adopt a new framework to 
help identify misleading deepfakes, and label them when they are created or 
uploaded onto social media. 

Among those who signed were Meta, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, and Adobe, 
with social media platforms X, Snap, and TikTok also signing the agreement. 
Deepfakes are expected to be a major threat to this years elections 

AI has been a significant concern at this year's Munich Security conference 
where the agreement was signed, with Google launching its AI Cyber Defense 
Initiative just days before. 

The latest agreement will help boost communication on when and where 
political deepfakes are created and distributed to mitigate the potential 
damage they cause. While the agreement is voluntary, deepfakes are a 
significant cause for concern in a year filled with critical elections across 
the globe. 

In a press release on the announcement of the agreement, vice chair and 
president of Microsoft Brad Smith said, The challenges are formidable, and 
our expectations must be realistic  There is no way the tech sector can 
protect elections by itself from this new type of electoral abuse. 

Shortly after Russias invasion of Ukraine, a deepfake video of Ukraines 
President Volodymyr Zelensky was widely shared in which the president asked 
his troops to lay down their arms and surrender. The video was quickly 
debunked as a fake, but deepfaking technology has progressed significantly in 
the past few years. 

Just last month, the US had its first taste of election interference in 2024 
when New Hampshire was targeted by a robo-call impersonation President Joe 
Biden asking constituents to not vote in the states primary election. 

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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/top-tech-companies-ai-developers-and-security-fi
rms-sign-anti-deepfake-agreement-to-combat-election-interference


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