Advertising
AI campaign deepfakes are starting to draw legal threats
Axios
“These legal challenges are likely just the beginning, as targeted candidates turn to the courts, law enforcement and warning letters to police what federal regulations leave unchecked.”
Campaigns
Latino group bets on bilingual AI to cut voter confusion before the midterms
Axios
“If Nubi doesn’t have an answer, Sánchez said, it is designed to say so and direct the user to a trusted source or partner rather than invent a response.”
Spam Filters Still Favor Democrats: Republican vs. Democratic Email Inbox Rates
Inbox.GOP
“Google launched its Verified Sender Program for political committees on Sept. 8. Our numbers above include the weeks since, and Republicans are still behind.”
Writing for the email AI summary
Blue State
“Your email subject line used to be the pitch. Now it has competition from something you didn’t write: a one- or two-sentence summary, generated by AI, sitting right next to — or instead of — the preview text you designed.”
Social Media
‘Creator Rally’ Aims to ‘De-Risk’ Politics for Influencers Ahead of Midterms
Campaigns & Elections
“It doesn’t matter that the messenger is perfect. It matters that the messenger is reaching an audience.”
Political Slopaganda
NYU Center on Technology Policy
“Rather than AI-generated content that is created to look authentic and meant to deceive voters, we are seeing an explosion of AI-generated content that does not appear to be hiding its AI origins.”
Technology
Q&A: How Big Tech Forever Changed the Campaign World
Campaigns & Elections
“I think trust is the number one thing that everyone’s trying to build, and it’s very hard to build with people. I’ve just found that being transparent about my own AI use has built up more trust with people, because then they at least know what’s happening and what’s in front of them.”
On AI: Nobody Is Minding the One Thing a Campaign Actually Controls
Will Robinson
“Across a sample of 124,949 citations from AI answers about these races, official campaign websites are about 6 percent of everything cited - fifth of sixteen source categories, ahead of all social media combined (3.7 percent) and all partisan media combined (2.5 percent).”