The objective is to prevent the circulation of montages of images and voices produced by apps to manipulate false statements by candidates
The TSE (Superior Electoral Court) approved, this Tuesday (27), 12 resolutions for this year’s municipal elections. The rules must guide political parties, voters and voters on the rules and guidelines for the 2024 election.
Among the main resolutions is the use of artificial intelligence during the municipal elections in October.
The rule prohibits manipulation of false content to create or replace a candidate’s image or voice with the aim of harming or favoring candidacies. The restriction on the use of chatbots and avatars to mediate campaign communication with real people was also approved.
The objective of the TSE is to prevent the circulation of montages of images and voices produced by artificial intelligence applications to manipulate false statements by candidates and authorities involved in organizing the election.
Misinformation on social media
The TSE will determine that social networks must take measures to prevent or reduce the circulation of untrue or out-of-contextual facts. Platforms that do not remove anti-democratic content and hateful speech, such as racist, homophobic or Nazi speech, will be held responsible.
“It is important that the Electoral Court has effective instruments to combat distortion in electoral advertisements, in hateful, fascist, anti-democratic speeches and in the use of AI to put something in a person’s speech that she did not say,” said the president of the TSE, minister Alexandre de Moraes.
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