Source: European Parliament
On 17 July, a hearing will be held on Generative AI and Democracy. The rise of generative AI technologies has significantly expanded the capabilities of malicious actors to manipulate public opinion, create disinformation and disrupt democratic processes.
With the ability of creating highly believable deep fakes and synthetic media, this new technology makes it easier to distort reality and to massively scale up traditional FIMI techniques (foreign information manipulation and interference) into more complex methods of interference, and this in a very easy and cost effective way. By examining this intersection of generative AI, FIMI and political manipulation, the objective of this hearing is to outline a clear understanding of the challenges ahead in this area, and, more importantly, the potential way forward in concrete steps that the EU and the tech community can take to protect democracy from unclear and still evolving digital threats.