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Microsoft, Google, Amazon and tech peers sign pact to combat election-related misinformation
A group of 20 leading tech companies on Friday announced a joint commitment to combat AI misinformation heading into the 2024 elections.
Misinformation in elections has been a major problem dating back to the 2016 presidential campaign, when Russian actors found cheap and easy ways to spread inaccurate content across social platforms. Participating companies in the accord agreed to eight high-level commitments, including assessing model risks, "seeking to detect" and address the distribution of such content on their platforms and providing transparency on those processes to the public. Christina Montgomery, IBM's chief privacy and trust officer, said in the release that in this key election year, "concrete, cooperative measures are needed to protect people and societies from the amplified risks of AI-generated deceptive content."
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