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ChatGPT rejected 250,000 election deepfake requests
A lot of people tried to use OpenAI's DALL-E image generator during the election season, but the company said that it was able to stop them from using it as a tool to create deepfakes. ChatGPT rejected over 250,000 requests to generate images with President Biden, President-elect Trump, Vice President Harris, Vice President-elect Vance and Governor Walz, OpenAI said in a new report. The company explained that it's a direct result of a safety measure it previously implemented so that ChatGPT would refuse to generate images with real people, including politicians. OpenAI has been preparing for the US presidential elections since the beginning of the year. It laid out a strategy that was meant to prevent its tools from being used to help spread misinformation and made sure that people asking ChatGPT about voting in the US are directed to CanIVote.org.
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On the outside, we're taking a walk on election day, seeing a film. Inside, we're a bit of a mess
Election day is here and so too is the anxiety that has parked itself in the middle of the room. Some people are trying their best to meet the moment -- with mixed results -- while others have simply chosen not to let the race for president and control of Congress dominate their lives. For most all of the voters we spoke to, it's easier said than done. They planned to go for a hike and visit art galleries around downtown L.A. but admitted they were stressed about the election. "We're just sort of out walking around and trying to have a pleasant day and not think about it too much," Mark "I think we'll be glued to our TVs tonight to find out how the rest of our lives are gonna go."
Tight Senate race, ongoing litigation, counties with differing rules set the stage for chaos in Pennsylvania
Fox News national correspondent Bryan Llenas has the latest as Pennsylvania senate nominees make last plea to voters ahead of Tuesday's midterm elections. The balance of power in Washington, D.C., may not be settled when Election Day comes to an end – or the day after, or the day after that, depending on how things go in Pennsylvania. The Senate race between Democrat John Fetterman and Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz remained a toss-up in the final Fox News Power Rankings before Election Day, and litigation over absentee ballots could draw the process out well beyond November 8. The state's supreme court ruled that undated and incorrectly dated absentee ballots had to be set aside, uncounted, and federal litigation related to this remains ongoing. During a press conference on Monday, Pennsylvania Acting Secretary of State Leigh M. Chapman confirmed that voters worried that they already made mistakes may not be able to fix them.
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7 Ways AI Could Solve All Of Our Election Woes: Out With The Polls, In With The AI Models
There is technology available today that can make every election day going forward safe, efficient, and most importantly, secure. If we look to AI and innovation, we can see the future of election day. No long lines, no waiting on ballots to be dumped and counted. No wondering if your mailed or absentee vote was counted and counted correctly. Instantaneous, secure and 100% accurate results.
7 Ways AI Could Solve All Of Our Election Woes: Out With The Polls, In With The AI Models
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA - OCTOBER 31: A voter walks out of a polling station during early voting for the ... [ ] U.S. Presidential election on October 31, 2020 in Arlington, United States. With predictions of record turnout of 150 million people, representing 65% of eligible voters, we have to ask ourselves why we continue to rely on antiquated systems, paper ballots and inadequate machines to handle the most important day of our democracy. There is technology available today that can make every election day going forward safe, efficient, and most importantly, secure. If we look to AI and innovation, we can see the future of election day. No long lines, no waiting on ballots to be dumped and counted.
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The Supreme Court's Conservatives Sure Are Pushing Some Crazy Legal Theories Lately
In an ideal world, the Supreme Court would provide stability in the run-up to a presidential election, imposing uniform rules based on long-accepted principles of election law. We do not live in that world. One week out from the 2020 election, four Supreme Court justices have launched a scorched-earth mission against voting rights. They teed up a Bush v. Gore reprise that could hand Donald Trump an unearned victory. These justices are in open revolt against voting rights, abandoning the pretense of "voter fraud" and embracing state legislatures' right to disenfranchise their constituents.
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How AI is creating new threats to election security
Campaign 2018: Election Hacking is a weekly series from CBS News & CNET about the cyber-threats and vulnerabilities of the 2018 midterm election. Cyberattacks targeting the 2018 midterm election aren't just relying on tested tactics like phishing attacks, social media influence campaigns, and ransomware targeting critical infrastructure -- they're also harnessing technology in new and ever more threatening ways. Cybersecurity experts are concerned that emerging technology like artificial intelligence and automation powered by big data and the Internet of Things is helping hackers attack election systems faster than officials can keep up. "What I'm scared by is that there is this attacker-defender asymmetry," says Mark Risher, Google's Director of Product Management for Security and Privacy. "We need to make sure every door, every window, every little portal is securely closed. But the attackers only need to find one."
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The five best ways to invest $10,000
Your definition of windfall may vary, but there's little argument that $10,000 is a healthy chunk of cash -- certainly enough to give you cold feet when deciding how to invest it. The good news is there are a lot of options: That amount is more than enough to meet most online broker minimums. We've slimmed things down to five of the best ways to invest $10,000. Feel free to mix and match; there's no rule that says you have to throw it all into one pot. A guaranteed investment return is as rare as free money, and a 401(k) match gives you both: When you put dollars into the account, your employer puts dollars in, too.
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A Few Thoughts on the Unthinkable
Jump to an update: • Waiting for Hillary on a gray morning • A few thoughts on the unthinkable • Palin speaks at the Trump party • Trump's path • Settling in for the night at Hillary Clinton's party • If Trump wins, he would likely also control all three branches of government • A new electoral map is upending the old one • The part of the night when Democrats start to freak out • Marco Rubio, again • The exit polls show a breakdown in demographics that is entirely predictable • A shooting near a polling place in Los Angeles • Early exit polls: No evidence Comey made a difference • Is the South still the conservative heartland? Clinton's motorcade arrived soon after. At campaign events and at her party last night, Clinton was permanently inside a huge bubble of safe space guarded by the Secret Service. At today's event, they were nowhere to be seen. Clinton arrived in a small caravan that stopped in a busy street. The only visible protection was provided by a handful of New York cops who hadn't received notice she was coming just then and halfheartedly tried to convince a crowd to move backward. Soon, Clinton's staff and the crowd and a few people who happened to have been walking down the street were mashed together for a panicky moment. A bicyclist, nearby, screamed, "Get out of the way, you fucking morons."--A. The executive branch of the United States government has grown in its power over the past eight years. After 9/11, George W. Bush built an aggressive national-security apparatus that Barack Obama only partially reined in. To cite just one of the powers that Commander-in-Chief Donald J. Trump would acquire, the American President has grown comfortable with killing alleged terrorists remotely with unmanned vehicles. Congress has done little in the way of oversight of this program, and it is just one of the many new powers Trump could inherit. Similarly, Congress has shown no interest in rewriting the overly broad war authorizations that Bush and Obama used to wage campaigns across the Middle East and Africa. As Congress and the White House became unable to pass legislation, Obama also pushed the boundaries with respect to the use of executive orders. These can be rescinded on day one of a Trump Presidency, but, just as important, Trump will undoubtedly push the boundaries of executive orders beyond what Obama did.
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Washington Post will use AI to cover every major result on US Election Day
The Washington Post plans to cover every major race on Election Day using AI. Using an in-house build data-crunching programme called Heliograf, the Post plans to provide detailed coverage of nearly 500 contests around the U.S. Allowing their team of 60 political reporters to focus their attention on high-profile contests and races. "This will give readers Washington Post-quality coverage at all levels but will also be used to alert reporters to things that they may not see, or draw their attention to a particular race that they didn't expect to be a close one," said Jeremy Gilbert, the Post's director of strategic initiatives. The Post experimented with the software to cover events at the Rio De Janeiro Olympics this summer but will look to expand its use on Election Day. Using templates and pre-written previews, the program will automatically update stories as results come in, said Sam Han, the Post's director of data science.
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