{"id":942276,"date":"2025-06-30T08:07:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T02:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=942276"},"modified":"2025-06-30T08:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T02:42:06","slug":"ai-is-starting-to-wear-down-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/30\/ai-is-starting-to-wear-down-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"AI is starting to wear down democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the explosion of generative artificial intelligence over the last two years, the technology has demeaned or defamed opponents and &#8212; for the first time, officials and experts said &#8212; begun to have an impact on election results. <\/p>\n<p>Free and easy to use, AI tools have generated a flood of fake photos and videos of candidates or supporters saying things they did not or appearing in places they were not &#8212; all spread with the relative impunity of anonymity online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the explosion of generative artificial intelligence over the last two years, the technology has demeaned or defamed opponents and &#8212; for the first time, officials and experts said &#8212; begun to have an impact on election results. Free and easy to use, AI tools have generated a flood of fake photos and videos of candidates or supporters saying things they did not or appearing in places they were not &#8212; all spread with the relative impunity of anonymity online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}