{"id":11131,"date":"2023-08-09T11:37:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T09:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/09\/ai-hysteria-is-a-distraction-algorithms-already-sow-disinformation-in-africa\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T11:37:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T09:37:25","slug":"ai-hysteria-is-a-distraction-algorithms-already-sow-disinformation-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/09\/ai-hysteria-is-a-distraction-algorithms-already-sow-disinformation-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"AI hysteria is a distraction: algorithms already sow disinformation in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forget \u2018AI doomerism\u2019 hype over ChatGPT, big tech\u2019s colonial attitude lets hateful electoral propaganda be fed to millions<\/p>\n<p>More than 70 countries are due to hold regional or national elections by the end of 2024. It will be a period of huge political significance across the globe, with more than 2 billion people (mostly from the global south) directly affected by the outcome of these elections. The stakes for the integrity of democracy have never been higher.<\/p>\n<p>As concerns mount about the influential role of information pollution, disseminated through the vast platforms of US and Chinese corporations, in shaping these elections, a new shadow looms: how artificial intelligence \u2013 more specifically, generative AI such as OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT \u2013 has increasingly moved into the mainstream of technology.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/aug\/09\/ai-chatgpt-doomerism-threat-already-here-big-tech-algorithms-sow-disinformation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d7aa05af076a9dd04318a65cce43b046929278fc\/0_0_4500_2700\/master\/4500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5c9fa153557bced5bccf037920311924\" title=\"AI hysteria is a distraction: algorithms already sow disinformation in Africa\" \/>Forget \u2018AI doomerism\u2019 hype over ChatGPT, big tech\u2019s colonial attitude lets hateful electoral propaganda be fed to millions<br \/>\nMore than 70 countries are due to hold regional or national elections by the end of 2024. It will be a period of huge political significance across the globe, with more than 2 billion people (mostly from the global south) directly affected by the outcome of these elections. The stakes for the integrity of democracy have never been higher.<br \/>\nAs concerns mount about the influential role of information pollution, disseminated through the vast platforms of US and Chinese corporations, in shaping these elections, a new shadow looms: how artificial intelligence \u2013 more specifically, generative AI such as OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT \u2013 has increasingly moved into the mainstream of technology. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget \u2018AI doomerism\u2019 hype over ChatGPT, big tech\u2019s colonial attitude lets hateful electoral propaganda be fed to millions More than 70 countries are due to hold regional or national elections by the end of 2024. It will be a period of huge political significance across the globe, with more than 2 billion people (mostly from &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/09\/ai-hysteria-is-a-distraction-algorithms-already-sow-disinformation-in-africa\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI hysteria is a distraction: algorithms already sow disinformation in Africa<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11131"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}