California Attorney General Rob Bonta called on executives of social media and other technology corporations to do more to guard voters from “deception, intimidation and deterrence” within the run-up to the November election.
“Millions of Californians rely on social media and artificial intelligence to get news and information about upcoming elections, and it is critical that the platforms, products and services offered by your companies are not abused to deceive voters about their constitutional right to vote,” Bonta wrote in a letter Wednesday to the CEOs of alphabet, Meta, MicrosoftOpenAI, Reddit, TikTok, X and YouTube.
The letter addressed sections of California law that prohibit impairing the precise to vote by misleading the general public concerning the time and place of voting and by utilizing intimidation tactics.
California state law “also generally prohibits the distribution of materially misleading audio or video media of a candidate on the ballot within 60 days before an election and with actual malice with the intent to damage the candidate's reputation or to deceive a voter into voting for or against the candidate,” Bonta wrote.
The letter follows pop icon Taylor Swift's endorsement of Kamala Harris for president on Tuesday night after the controversy. Swift criticized those that common AI-generated images mistakenly on the grounds that she had Donald Trump.
Trump had shared a lot of these images on his platform Truth Social. Separately, X owner Elon Musk recently shared an AI-generated image showing Harris dressed as a communist dictator.
“Kamala has sworn to be a communist dictator since day one,” Musk, who supports Trump, wrote in a post on X on September 2. “Can you believe she's wearing this outfit!?”
Google's Gemini, OpenAI's Dall-E and Chat GPT, Microsoft Copilot and Grok, developed by Musk's xAI, allow users to quickly generate images and text in response to prompts or questions. In August, an updated version of The product of xAI, Grok-2there gave the impression to be few restrictions on the creation of pretend images of political figures.
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