{"id":1911836,"date":"2023-04-08T12:55:22","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T16:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-ai-can-track-manipulate-voters\/"},"modified":"2023-04-08T13:04:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T17:04:49","slug":"how-ai-can-track-manipulate-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-ai-can-track-manipulate-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"How AI Can Track, Manipulate Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhow-ai-can-track-manipulate-voters%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1911836&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<p>How well do artificial intelligence (AI) programs know us humans?<\/p>\n<p>In most cases, it turns out quite well and, in some ways better than we know ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>A study by AI experts at Brigham Young University, titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/services\/aop-cambridge-core\/content\/view\/035D7C8A55B237942FB6DBAD7CAA4E49\/S1047198723000025a.pdf\/out-of-one-many-using-language-models-to-simulate-human-samples.pdf\">Out of One, Many: Using Language Models to Simulate Human Samples<\/a>,\u201d found that predictive AI programs exhibited a striking degree of what they call \u201calgorithmic fidelity,\u201d or precise mapping to actual human behavior.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause these AI tools are basically trained on stuff that humans produce, things that we write, documents we make, websites we write, they can reflect back to us a lot of interesting and important things about ourselves,\u201d Ethan Busby, political psychologist and co-author of the study, told The Epoch Times. \u201cKind of like if someone read your diary from start to finish, they would know a lot of things about you, and you\u2019re not going to like every single thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a similar way,\u201d Busby said, \u201cthese tools have read so many things that humans have produced, and they can replicate or say back to us things about ourselves that we didn\u2019t necessarily know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The study sought to analyze human behavior in the context of elections and asked how accurately a GPT-3 language model could predict voting patterns based on socio-demographic factors like a person\u2019s gender, age, location, religion, race, and economic status. The authors used these factors to create \u201csilicon samples,\u201d or composite personas based on varying combinations of these attributes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can basically ask these tools to put themselves in a specific frame of mind and pretend to be essentially this person, pretend to have these characteristics,\u201d Busby said. They asked the program how these \u201csilicon samples\u201d would vote in specific campaigns, then they compared the results to actual voters\u2019 behavior in elections between 2012 and 2020, using data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/electionstudies.org\">American National Elections<\/a> studies.<\/p>\n<p>For example, Busby said, regarding the 2016 election, \u201cwe could say, what kinds of groups are going to be pivotal in Ohio?\u201d What they found was that AI quickly learned to accurately predict how people would vote based on their attributes.<\/p>\n<h2>Left and Right Decry AI, When it Costs Them Elections<\/h2>\n<p>Artificial intelligence is highly useful to organizations that want to target things like political messaging campaigns or fundraising efforts. But some political analysts have raised red flags about this, inferring unfairness and election interference. Their degree of outrage, however, largely depends on whether their candidates or causes succeeded or failed.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, The Guardian, a left-wing British newspaper, wrote a series of articles claiming that conservative tech entrepreneur Robert Mercer, whom it called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage\">the big data billionaire waging war on the mainstream media<\/a>,\u201d had financed a campaign strategy using AI to circumvent mainstream media narratives. This, the paper alleged, illicitly swayed voters in favor of Donald Trump, resulting in his victory in the presidential election in 2016.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3849210\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/06\/08\/latinos-vote-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Latinos vote at a polling station in El Gallo Restaurant in Los Angeles, Calif., on Nov. 8, 2016. (David McNew\/Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>Then, in 2020, Forbes, a right-wing publication, published an article titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/craigsmith\/2022\/12\/02\/how-artificial-intelligence-swayed-the-midterm-electionsand-will-become-a-permanent-feature-of-democracy\/?sh=fc2083f7b31f\">How Artificial Intelligence Swayed the Midterm Elections<\/a>.\u201d This article decried the use of AI by Democrats to target fundraising campaigns at likely donors, allowing them to massively outspend Republicans in close races and deliver positive results for the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>Critics of AI say that these programs are not only used for voter analysis but for voter manipulation as well. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rand.org\/content\/dam\/rand\/pubs\/perspectives\/PEA1000\/PEA1043-1\/RAND_PEA1043-1.pdf\">2022 report<\/a> by the Rand Corporation titled \u201cArtificial Intelligence, Deepfakes and Disinformation,\u201d warned of \u201cdisinformation warfare,\u201d though largely from a left-wing perspective. Among the instruments of manipulation it cited were misleading images or videos shared on social media, known as memes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia used memes to target the 2016 U.S. election,\u201d the report stated. \u201cChina used memes to target protesters in Hong Kong; and those seeking to question the efficacy of vaccines for coronavirus disease 2019 used memes as a favorite tool.\u201d According to Rand, these memes, together with \u201cfake news websites,\u201d have \u201csown division in the American electorate and increased the adoption of conspiracy theories.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Taking AI from Population to Personal Analysis<\/h2>\n<p>While AI is effective on an aggregate level in observing people, spotting patterns, learning our habits, and inferring, based on that, what we will do in various situations, getting down to the individual level is more challenging.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think at an individual level, it probably does okay; it\u2019s not perfect. It\u2019s not good necessarily at predicting specific people, not nearly as well as predicting groups and aggregating up,\u201d Busby said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5179837\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/04\/07\/id5179837-2023-03-27T142129Z_1_LYNXMPEJ2Q0MA_RTROPTP_4_SALESFORCE-AI-1200x735.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> A smartphone with a displayed ChatGPT logo is placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken on Feb. 23, 2023. (Dado Ruvic\/Reuters)<\/figure>\n<p>Anyone who has asked ChatGPT, a newly popular AI search program, about themselves or people they know often finds that some of the information is correct and some of it is wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese models, all of them, ChatGPT and any of the ones used by Facebook or others, they sometimes have a tendency to what is called \u2018hallucinate,\u2019\u201d Busby said. \u201cThat means they just make things up that aren\u2019t true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But he believes AI will soon get better at getting its facts straight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s just a lot of pressure from corporations, politicians, campaigns\u2014they want to know how is this person going to respond to this message,\u201d he said. \u201cI think there will be a lot of emphasis on trying to develop that kind of accuracy, but I don\u2019t think we\u2019re there yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taking it to a personal l<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How well do artificial intelligence (AI) programs know us humans? In most cases, it turns out quite well and, in some ways better than we know ourselves. A study by AI experts at Brigham Young University, titled \u201cOut of One, Many: Using Language Models to Simulate Human Samples,\u201d found that predictive AI programs exhibited a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":887,"featured_media":1911837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[20642,4319,4223],"class_list":["post-1911836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-manipulate","tag-track","tag-voters"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/887"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1911836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1911837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1911836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1911836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}