Meta on Tuesday said fears that artificial intelligence would unleash a torrent of misinformation to deceive voters around the world did not come true as elections played out around the world this year.
Defenses against deceptive influence campaigns at the networking giant’s platform held firm, with no evidence that such coordinated efforts got much attention online, Meta president of global affairs Nick Clegg told reporters.
“I don’t think the use of generative AI was a particularly effective tool for them to evade our trip wires,” Clegg said of those behind coordinated disinformation campaigns.
“The delta between what was expected and what appeared is quite significant.”
Meta says that most of the cover influence operations it has disrupted in recent years were carried out by actors from Russia, Iran and China.
Meta has no intent of lowering its guard, however, since generative AI tools are expected to become more sophisticated and …