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At the starting time of the year , there werewidespread concernsabout howgenerative AIcould be used to interfere in globose election to spread propaganda and disinformation . Fast - forward to the end of the year , Meta claims those care did not bet out , at least on its platform , as it shared that the engineering science had limited impact across Facebook , Instagram , and Threads .
The society says its findings are establish on substance around major elections in the U.S. , Bangladesh , Indonesia , India , Pakistan , the EU Parliament , France , the U.K. , South Africa , Mexico , and Brazil .
“ While there were illustration of confirmed or suspected use of AI in this way , the book remained low and our existing policies and processes proved sufficient to trim down the risk around generative AI message , ” the company wrote in ablog post . “ During the election period in the major elections listed above , ratings on AI content related to election , politics , and social subject represented less than 1 % of all fact - delay misinformation . ”
Meta remark that its Imagine AI image source turn down 590,000 request to make images of President - elect Trump , Vice President - elect Vance , Vice President Harris , Governor Walz , and President Biden in the calendar month leading up to election day in rules of order to forbid people from creating election - related deepfakes .
The caller also found that coordinated connection of account that were looking to spread propaganda or disinformation “ made only incremental productivity and content - contemporaries gains using generative AI . ”
Meta says the use of AI did n’t impede its power to take down these covert influence campaign because it focalise on these account ’ behaviour , not on the content they post , regardless of whether or not they were created with AI .
The tech behemoth also revealed that it took down around 20 newfangled covert influence operations around the world to keep foreign interference . Meta say the bulk of the networks it interrupt did n’t have reliable audience and that some of them used bastard likes and follower to appear more pop than they actually were .
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Meta went on to point the finger at other platforms , note that false videos about the U.S. election linked to Russian - ground influence trading operations were often posted on X and Telegram .
“ As we take pedigree of what we ’ve learn during this remarkable yr , we will keep our policies under review and announce any change in the month forward , ” Meta publish .
