2024 Is the Year of the Generative AI Election

I'm a reporter on the WIRED Politics desk, and I'm taking over for Makena this week to talk about politicians rising from the dead in India and the rapper Eminem endorsing opposition parties in South Africa. These things haven't really happened, obviously, but deepfakes created by generative AI have made it seem like they have. Already, we're seeing how politicians, campaigns, and regular people are using generative AI in elections. And this is only the beginning. So today, WIRED is launching a project to track it, all over the world.