Artificial intelligence has yet to affect election results

Artificial intelligence has not yet had a decisive influence on election results, according to researchers in Switzerland who analysed this year's elections in almost 100 countries. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox However, the spread of content manipulated with artificial intelligence (AI) has further divided political opinion and created a climate of mistrust, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) wrote in a press release on the report on Tuesday. For example, AI-manipulated videos, known as deepfakes, have been used in elections in several countries, it said. In the report, the EPFL researchers cite the 2023 elections in Switzerland, in which parliamentarian Andreas Glarner created a deepfake video of his political rival Sibel Arslan, as an example of this. Another example, according to the report, is Donald Trump's repeated claim that all negative reports about him are deepfakes. + Is AI a risk to democracy? In India, a deepfake ...