Microsoft, OpenAI, Google and others agree to combat election-related deepfakes

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : Although the general principles the 20 companies agreed to sound like a promising start, it remains to be seen whether a loose set of agreements without binding enforcement will be enough to combat a nightmare scenario where the world's bad actors use generative AI to sway public opinion and elect aggressively anti-democratic candidates -- in the US and elsewhere.
57% : In December, the European Union (EU) agreed on an expansive AI Act safety development bill that could influence other nations' regulatory efforts.
34% : Both included easy-to-miss disclaimers that the images were AI-generated.
21% : The campaign for Ron DeSantis, who has since dropped out of the GOP primary, followed with AI-generated images of rival and likely nominee Donald Trump in June 2023.

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