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The US Democratic Party has begun using AI to phone voters and campaign on their behalf. The company providing the service says they expect to scale fast to thousands of calls a day. (www.reuters.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Lugh to c/futurology

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[–] Lugh 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Civox, the company behind this service, is ensuring the AI discloses that it is AI to callers. They've also said they won't take VC money to ensure their board's ethics values aren't diluted. It won't be long before less high-minded people are doing what they are doing.

The EU's Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) will ban people from using tech like this to lie or deceive people, but few people anywhere else in the world have such protections yet. Disinformation has become the norm on social media already, it is almost inevitable people will use this technology for it. I suspect the kind of people who are already most vulnerable to disinformation, will be the easiest to be fooled by thinking AI's calling them are real humans, if the AI says it's human.

[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 8 points 11 months ago

If the board is beginning from the premise that it is ethical to waste the time and resources of everyday citizens who did not explicitly opt into getting spammed, their ethics are already compromised. VC funding already captured the regulatory body that should have prevented this massive waste of resources. No one high-minded would use tech like this.