The research was conducted by computer scientist Arvind Narayanan, director of the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy, and Sayash Kapoor, a computer science Ph.D. candidate at Princeton. The pair are writing a book called AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference.
Using information compiled by the WIRED AI Elections Project, Narayanan and Kapoor analyzed 78 instances of AI-created political content that appeared last year during elections around the world. “AI does make it possible to fabricate false content. But that has not fundamentally changed the landscape of political misinformation,” they write in an essay about their research.
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