“I can’t prove that," says Oren Etzioni, professor emeritus at the University of Washington. "I hope to be proven wrong. But the ingredients are there."

Top AI expert ‘completely terrified’ of 2024 election, shaping up to be ‘tsunami of misinformation’::“I can’t prove that," says Oren Etzioni, professor emeritus at the University of Washington. “I hope to be proven wrong. But the ingredients are there.”

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Had this in Argentina last year and I could bet even the “debate” was highly AI scripted

Edit, funny thing, it was not cheap… they estimate 15 kM US$

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What wasn’t cheap? The election…?

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Massa’s campaign was paid with money from the state. Here, during elections, the state pays part of the campaign of every party, but they went way above that number with the candidate of the ruling party

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15 thousand million million?

= 15 quadrillion USD?

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15 billions, sorry… I got horribly lost in translation… in spanish billions is millions of millions and plural nouns in acronyms are marked with double letters. Like EEUU its Estados Unidos (united states).

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