US Democrat Shamaine Daniels has hired an artificial intelligence (AI) campaign volunteer in her congressional bid for the upcoming 2024 elections.
According to a report According to Reuters, Daniels uses “Ashley,” which she says is the first political phone banker powered by developer Civox’s generative AI technology. Although robocalls have been around for a while, none of Ashley’s responses are pre-recorded.
The report says it’s built with “similar” technology to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which allows Ashley to have an infinite number of personalized, real-time, one-on-one conversations with voters.
The AI robocaller has already reached thousands of voters in Pennsylvania as a Daniels campaign volunteer.
Civox CEO Ilya Mouzykantskii predicted that the use of AI callers would “evolve rapidly” and said they aimed to make tens of thousands of calls per day by the end of the year. ‘year.
“It’s coming for the 2024 election, and it’s coming in a very big way…The future is now.”
Ashley has been given a robotic-sounding voice and reveals that she is an AI robot when speaking with voters, although there is no legal requirement in the United States requiring her to do so.
Civox has not revealed which exact generative AI models it uses, although it has indicated that it uses more than 20 different ones, both open source and proprietary. The robot was trained using data available on the Internet.
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As the 2024 US elections approach, the use of AI has become a controversial topic. In October, U.S. senators proposed a bill that punish creators of unauthorized AI-generated products deep fakes.
Before that, companies developing AI tools also had safeguards in place to stop the spread of false or misleading information. Google did disclose the use of AI in a political campaign obligatory advertisements.
Meanwhile, Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, prohibited from using generative AI ad creation tools for political advertisers in early November.
A recent study by the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center, a research unit of Microsoft, found that Using AI on social media has great potential to impact voter sentiment.
Another European study tested Microsoft’s Bing AI chatbot, now renamed Copilot, and found that it produces incorrect answers on election information 30% of the time.
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