Social media accounts use AI-generated audio to push 2024 election misinformation
This year, the United States and more than 50 other countries are holding national elections. Generative artificial intelligence, and audio created with it, are expected to play an outsized role. (Shutterstock)
PolitiFact
A recent social media post made what appeared to be a surprising announcement about the 2024 presidential race.
"Breaking news: Donald Trump has declared that he is pulling out of the run for president," the narrator said in a Feb. 22 TikTok video, which was viewed more than 161,000 times before TikTok removed it from the platform.
Of course, Trump hasn’t dropped out of the 2024 race. As of March 12, he’d secured enough delegates to clinch the Republican presidential nomination.
Besides the false claim, the video had another distinctive element: The audio appeared to be made with artificial intelligence.
PolitiFact identified several TikTok accounts spreading false narratives about the 2024 election and Trump through its partnership with TikTok to counter inauthentic, misleading or false content. (Read more about PolitiFact's partnership with TikTok.)
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