AI Plays a Role
Clegg reports that it was “striking” how little AI had been used to try and influence Meta users. He said: “There were all sorts of warnings about the potential risks of things like widespread deepfakes and AI enabled disinformation campaigns. That’s not what we’ve seen from what we’ve monitored across our services. It seems these risks did not materialize in a significant way, and that any such impact was modest and limited in scope.”
It did play a small role though. The company had to remove just over 500,000 requests to generate AI images using Meta’s own tools and images subjects, included Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, JD Vance and Joe Biden in the month leading up to the US election.
Clegg warned against complacency, saying that Meta is fully expecting AI will play a larger role in the future and the present status-quo is “very, very likely to change.”
