AI images posted to Truth Social bore the watermark of a tiny Texas non-profit
looking to bankroll X users
When Donald Trump shared a slew of AI-generated images this week that falsely
depicted Taylor Swift and her fans endorsing his campaign for president, the
former US president was amplifying the work of a murky non-profit with
aspirations to bankroll rightwing media influencers and a history of spreading
misinformation.
Several of the images Trump posted on his Truth Social platform, which showed
digitally rendered young women in “Swifties for Trump” T-shirts, were the
products of the John Milton Freedom Foundation. Launched last year, the
Texas-based non-profit organization frames itself as a press freedom group with
the goal of “empowering independent journalists” and “fortifying the bedrock of
democracy”.
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AI company bans accounts and says operation did not appear to have meaningful
audience engagement
OpenAI said on Friday it had taken down accounts of an Iranian group for using
its ChatGPT chatbot to generate content meant for influencing the US
presidential election and other issues.
The operation, identified as Storm-2035, used ChatGPT to generate content
focused on topics such as commentary on the candidates on both sides in the US
elections, the conflict in Gaza and Israel’s presence at the Olympic Games and
then shared it via social media accounts and websites, Open AI said.
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Harris’s track record, and time as California senator and AG, has tech leaders
wondering if she’d have a friendlier approach to the industry
About 700 wealthy Democratic supporters packed into San Francisco’s Fairmont
hotel on Sunday to see Kamala Harris in her first return to the city since
launching her campaign for president. Among the crowd at the fundraiser, where
the cheapest tickets cost $3,300 and went up to $500,000, was a mixture of tech
billionaires, executives and Silicon Valley venture capitalists who have quickly
embraced the vice-president in her bid for the White House.
The event, which raised more than $12m, was the latest in the Harris campaign’s
outreach to tech Democrats and an extension of a relationship with Silicon
Valley elites that goes back more than a decade.
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Musk blames cyber-attack as conversation is delayed, resembling glitchy launch
of Ron DeSantis’s campaign
As a high-profile conversation between Donald Trump and Elon Musk was about to
begin, users of X, formerly Twitter, were confronted with the message: “This
Space is not available.”
Spaces, X’s livestreaming audio feature, was the chosen forum for the dialogue,
but it wasn’t working. Clicking on the link to the broadcast, hosted by Trump’s
dormant @RealDonaldTrump account, froze the site and rendered it unusable.
Tweeters said they couldn’t dial in; some said their browsers had crashed.
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The X owner, talking to Trump Monday, has cast doubt on mail ballots and claims
there’s rampant non-citizen voting
When Elon Musk took over as owner of Twitter, researchers and elections
officials feared a rampant spread of misinformation that would lead to threats
and harassment and undermine democracy.
Their fears came true – and Musk himself has emerged as one of its main drivers.
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X’s Grok AI chatbot falsely told users ‘ballot deadline has passed for several
states’
Five secretaries of state plan to send a letter to Elon Musk calling on the
billionaire owner of X to make changes to the social media platform’s Grok AI
chatbot after it gave users misinformation about Kamala Harris appearing on the
2024 White House ballot in certain states.
Grok told users that the ballots were “locked and loaded” and that “the ballot
deadline has passed for several states”.
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