{"id":1959025,"date":"2023-06-28T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fec-commissioner-says-content-moderation-needed-to-prevent-ai-generated-election-misinformation\/"},"modified":"2023-06-28T09:55:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T13:55:28","slug":"fec-commissioner-says-content-moderation-needed-to-prevent-ai-generated-election-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fec-commissioner-says-content-moderation-needed-to-prevent-ai-generated-election-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"FEC Commissioner emphasizes necessity of &#8216;content moderation&#8217; to combat AI-generated election misinformation."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Ffec-commissioner-says-content-moderation-needed-to-prevent-ai-generated-election-misinformation%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=1959025&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<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0627\/fced2efa-65be-4f49-9061-3a49cae83a07\/audio.mp3?length=4506093&#038;duration=375\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO\u2014A commissioner for the United States\u2019 Federal Election Commission says that the government must compel tech companies to moderate more content in order to prevent the spread of AI-driven election disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>Big Tech companies are creating a monster in AI that will unleash havoc on the U.S. electoral system, FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub said at the June 27 Collision tech conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor business reasons, the tech companies created this monster,\u201d Weintraub said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is going to be harder and harder to tell what is true.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><b>US Wants Companies to Control Content<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>While technology has allowed for the \u201cdemocratization of information,\u201d Weintraub said, that democratization was hastening the spread of both true and false information.<\/p>\n<p>Because the U.S. government is constitutionally barred from controlling speech and the press, Weintraub said, it would need to compel tech companies to adopt more strict \u201ccontent moderation\u201d policies to prevent the spread of misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>This is particularly true in the age of AI, Weintraub said, saying that the \u201cexplosion of AI\u201d would have profound effects on the electoral process as deepfakes and false information proliferate throughout the media ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTechnology is having a huge impact on democracy,\u201d Weintraub said.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, Weintraub said that the tech companies controlling social media will have to \u201ctame\u201d the monster they created by reestablishing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/big-tech-to-ban-parler-over-lack-of-content-moderation\/\" title=\"Big tech to ban Parler over lack of content moderation\">content moderation policies<\/a> such as those used in the 2016 presidential election to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fec-commissioner-says-content-moderation-needed-to-prevent-ai-generated-election-misinformation\/\" title=\"FEC Commissioner emphasizes necessity of 'content moderation' to combat AI-generated election misinformation.\">thwart reported foreign election interference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Only through a \u201cwhole of society effort,\u201d with government and corporations working toward the same goal, could the \u201cvirality\u201d of false information be combatted, Weintraub said.<\/p>\n<p>The comments echoed recent remarks made by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/06\/26\/elections-are-going-to-be-a-mess-due-to-ai-ex-google-ceo-schmidt.html\">said<\/a> in an interview with CNBC that \u201cthe 2024 elections are going to be a mess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Tech companies are] working on it, but they haven\u2019t solved it yet,\u201d Schmidt said. \u201cAnd, in fact, the trust and safety groups are getting made smaller, not larger.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><b>Censorship and Surveillance Mar Government Misinformation Programs<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>Weintraub\u2019s comments come as governments throughout the world struggle with balancing the liberty of their citizens and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-does-the-u-s-intelligence-report-on-ufos-say-everything-you-need-to-know\/\" title=\"What Does The U.S. Intelligence Report On UFOs Say? Everything You Need To Know\">potential threat posed<\/a> by misleading or false information in times of crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The United States is no exception to this trend. The websites for numerous government departments ranging from the Office of the Surgeon General to the Department of Homeland Security to the Food and Drug Administration all now house dedicated pages and multimedia content lamenting the rise of misinformation and disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInaccurate information spreads widely and at speed making it more difficult for the public to identify verified facts and advice from trusted sources, such as the FDA,\u201d the agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/news-events\/rumor-control\">says<\/a> in one video on its website.<\/p>\n<p>Some websites, including the FDA\u2019s, portray misinformation as a virus not unlike Coronavirus, even going so far as to encourage Americans to \u201cstop the spread.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The nation\u2019s recent experiences with government-backed content moderation is far from utopian, however. The executive branch currently faces multiple probes into alleged unconstitutional behavior across administrations including the use of content moderation policies as a tool for censorship and surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican-led House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released a report (<a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/republicans-judiciary.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/cisa-staff-report6-26-23.pdf\">pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a conference in Toronto. She emphasized the need for government intervention to ensure tech companies take responsibility for moderating content and combat the potential harm caused by AI-generated election disinformation. Weintraub warned that if left unchecked, these companies could unleash chaos on the US electoral system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":1959026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":["post-1959025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"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\/1959025","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1959026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}