'Not the AI election': Why artificial intelligence did not define the 2024 campaign

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : The experts said AI's influence could hurt the U.S. domestically -- misleading voters, affecting their decision-making or deterring them from voting and abroad -- benefiting foreign adversaries.
54% : States published their own pages to help voters identify AI-generated content.
46% : AI did not drive the spread of two major misinformation narratives in the weeks leading up to Election Day -- the fabricated pet-eating claims and falsehoods about the Federal Emergency Management Agency's relief efforts following Hurricanes Milton and Helene, said Bruce Schneier, adjunct lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
46% : "Researchers warned in 2023 that AI could help foreign adversaries conduct influence operations faster and cheaper.
40% : Trump, for example, falsely claimed that a montage of his gaffes that the Lincoln Project released was AI-generated, and he said a crowd of Harris supporters was AI-generated.
37% : Trump, for example, repeatedly falsely said in speeches, media interviews and on social media that illegal immigrants were being brought into the U.S. to vote even though cases of noncitizens voting are extremely rare and citizenship is required for voting in federal elections.
22% : Deepfakes that criticized or misled people about candidates were "extensions of traditional U.S. political narratives," Daniel Schiff said, such as ones painting Harris as a communist or a clown, or Trump as a fascist or a criminal.
13% : Both Meta AI and OpenAI said their tools rejected hundreds of thousands of requests to generate AI images of Trump, Biden, Harris, Vance and Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

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