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The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday restored several pieces of a 2021 Texas election law that overhauled mail-in and assisted voting, overturning a lower court’s block on those provisions. Five years ago, Texas passed Senate Bill 1, a wide-reaching election law that changed the way local officials administer elections and how some Texans vote, particularly aimed at initiatives Harris County implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic. The law was denounced by voter advocacy groups, civil rights organizations and Democratic lawmakers, who broke quorum in an attempt to stifle the bill. Ayden Runnels, The Texas Tribune.
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Does AI Fight or Fuel Election Disinformation
A new study from the Brennan Center takes a look
This week, the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law published Does AI Fight or Fuel Election Disinformation?, a study of how the most popular AI chatbots respond to election disinformation.
The good news: AI chatbots consistently pushed back against false election conspiracy theories.
The bad news: AI tools generally allowed users to create images, video, and audio depicting election disinformation, frequently helping them make these deceptive media as convincing as possible. One chatbot, Grok, said it was “not disallowed” from creating “election misinformation.”
The models also largely failed to identify AI-generated images promoting election myths as AI-generated, including images the tools had created themselves.
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