OpenAI’s Election Integrity Measures for 2024

OpenAI has outlined its 2024 election strategy, emphasizing openness, correct voting information access, and preventing AI exploitation.

OpenAI, the company that developed the widely used chatbot ChatGPT, has published a new blog post in which it outlines its strategy for the elections that will take place on a worldwide scale in 2024.

Its primary focus was on bringing about openness, improving access to correct voting information, and preventing the exploitation of artificial intelligence.

OpenAI goal is to prevent the compromise of the electoral process by ensuring that our technology is not utilized in a manner that could compromise its integrity.

“We want to make sure that our AI systems are built, deployed, and used safely. Like any new technology, these tools come with benefits and challenges.”

The firm aims to prevent the compromise of the electoral process by ensuring that its technology is not utilized in a manner that could compromise its integrity.

The company stated that maintaining the “integrity” of elections is an endeavor that involves everyone. OpenAI claims to have a “cross-functional effort” that is especially committed to election-related activities and will promptly analyze and fix any potential abuse that may occur.

Among these initiatives is the prevention of misuse, which the organization defines as “misleading deep fakes,” chatbots imitating applicants, or scaled influence operations.

Additionally, it stated that one of its steps has been the implementation of guardrails on DALL-E to deny requests for the generation of images of real people, including political candidates.

Before the presidential elections in 2024, officials in the United States were even examining the possibility of regulating political deep fakes and political advertisements that were made using artificial intelligence in August 2023.

OpenAI prohibits the development of applications for political campaigning and lobbying at this time. A politician who is seeking a seat in the United States Congress has already used artificial intelligence (AI) as a campaign tool to reach a greater number of potential voters.

The inventor of the artificial intelligence system stated that ChatGPT continuously updates to provide voters with accurate information derived from real-time news reporting worldwide, while also directing them to official voting websites for additional information.

Microsoft has even released a paper on the potential impact that artificial intelligence usage on social media could have on voter attitudes.

This is just one example of how artificial intelligence has already become a prominent topic of conversation about elections. Researchers based in Europe discovered that the Bing AI chatbot developed by Microsoft provided false election information, leading to criticism.

Within the realm of artificial intelligence and elections, Google has taken a very proactive posture.

As part of its efforts to limit responses to election searches on its Bard AI tool and generative search, the company disclosed artificial intelligence (AI) in political campaign advertisements necessary in September.