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Tech firms sign ‘reasonable precautions’ to stop AI-generated election chaos

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A pile of ‘I voted’ stickers seen in Pennsylvania in 2020. Photograph: SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images

Major technology companies signed a pact Friday to voluntarily adopt “reasonable precautions” to prevent artificial intelligence tools from being used to disrupt democratic elections around the world.

Executives from Adobe, Amazon, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and TikTok gathered at the Munich Security Conference to announce a new framework for how they will respond to AI-generated deepfakes that deliberately trick voters. Twelve other companies – including Elon Musk’s X – are signing on to the accord.

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