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More than AI misinformation, US voters worry about lying politicians
51 percent of Americans identified politicians spreading falsehoods as their top concern regarding misinformation.
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As a bitterly contested US election campaign enters its final stretch, misinformation researchers have raised the alarm over threats posed by AI and foreign influence, but voters appear more concerned about falsehoods from a more familiar source: politicians.
The United States is battling a firehose of misinformation before the November 5 vote, from fake "news" sites that researchers say were created by Russian and Iranian actors, to manipulated images generated by artificial intelligence tools that have blurred the boundaries between reality and fiction.
More concerning for voters, however, is misinformation spreading the good old-fashioned way, through politicians sowing falsehoods, with researchers saying they face almost no legal consequences for distorting the truth.
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