\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAdvertisements generated by artificial intelligence that are intended to recruit election judges are posted online for boards of elections. Can voters tell?Recruiting advertisements for election judges have circulated on social media, WBAL-TV 11 News Investigates uncovered.Some voters told WBAL-TV 11 News Investigates that they will now question the accuracy of election information. Everyone thought the AI posts were sloppy, while others chalk it up to a marketing error, saying they still have confidence in the system.”It’s obviously AI. It looks, you know, not revised,” said Sophia Burnett, a voter.”You can definitely tell they are AI-generated,” said Sherry Bagby, a voter.Some issues are subtle, like in one ad by the Baltimore County Board of Elections that shows patterns wrong in the Maryland flag. In another Baltimore County ad, a man wearing blue clothes has a “thumbs up” coming out of his stomach.The Baltimore County Board of Elections has a strict policy prohibiting AI-generated material.WBAL-TV 11 News Investigates asked voters whether the posts gave them less confidence that the boards of elections are getting other information right.”I guess that would make me feel less confident in what’s happening behind the scenes,” said Tracie Ezell, a voter.The Baltimore City Board of Elections doesn’t prohibit AI-generated information, but it requires oversight by a peer-review process of AI-generated posts.Despite the oversight, one ad slipped through that has a child with three hands, and another one shows a woman who has six fingers on her hand. Another one shows a woman’s eyes going in different directions.”I don’t think that it would make me think that anything else they are putting out there is not the truth,” Bagby said. “I think that we are in the age of technology. Most people use AI for business. I just think, if it was a document that was presented, then I would maybe question that, but because it is a marketing image, it’s a picture.”Baltimore City Board of Elections officials are deleting the posts because protocol was not followed. Baltimore County Board of Elections officials took the posts down and said they guarantee this will not happen again.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Advertisements generated by artificial intelligence that are intended to recruit election judges are posted online for boards of elections. Can voters tell?<\/p>\n
Recruiting advertisements for election judges have circulated on social media, WBAL-TV 11 News Investigates uncovered.<\/p>\n
Some voters told WBAL-TV 11 News Investigates that they will now question the accuracy of election information. Everyone thought the AI posts were sloppy, while others chalk it up to a marketing error, saying they still have confidence in the system.<\/p>\n
“It’s obviously AI. It looks, you know, not revised,” said Sophia Burnett, a voter.<\/p>\n
“You can definitely tell they are AI-generated,” said Sherry Bagby, a voter.<\/p>\n
Some issues are subtle, like in one ad by the Baltimore County Board of Elections that shows patterns wrong in the Maryland flag. In another Baltimore County ad, a man wearing blue clothes has a “thumbs up” coming out of his stomach.<\/p>\n
The Baltimore County Board of Elections has a strict policy prohibiting AI-generated material.<\/p>\n
WBAL-TV 11 News Investigates asked voters whether the posts gave them less confidence that the boards of elections are getting other information right.<\/p>\n
“I guess that would make me feel less confident in what’s happening behind the scenes,” said Tracie Ezell, a voter.<\/p>\n
The Baltimore City Board of Elections doesn’t prohibit AI-generated information, but it requires oversight by a peer-review process of AI-generated posts.<\/p>\n
Despite the oversight, one ad slipped through that has a child with three hands, and another one shows a woman who has six fingers on her hand. Another one shows a woman’s eyes going in different directions.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think that it would make me think that anything else they are putting out there is not the truth,” Bagby said. “I think that we are in the age of technology. Most people use AI for business. I just think, if it was a document that was presented, then I would maybe question that, but because it is a marketing image, it’s a picture.”<\/p>\n
Baltimore City Board of Elections officials are deleting the posts because protocol was not followed. Baltimore County Board of Elections officials took the posts down and said they guarantee this will not happen again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Advertisements generated by artificial intelligence that are intended to recruit election judges are posted online for boards of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[754,25588,24,25584,25597,25595,25,1004,1012,25599,25590,1011,25594,25585,25589,4446,25583,25587,1392,20491,3580,25591,25592,25596,21588,25600,4898,25593,25586,25598,5941],"class_list":["post-42027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ad","tag-advertisement","tag-ai","tag-ai-ads","tag-ai-post","tag-ai-generated-ad","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-city","tag-baltimore-city-board","tag-baltimore-city-board-of-elections","tag-baltimore-county","tag-baltimore-county-board","tag-baltimore-county-board-of-elections","tag-board-of-elections","tag-election","tag-election-ad","tag-election-judge","tag-elections","tag-hand","tag-maryland","tag-maryland-elections","tag-maryland-politics","tag-news-investigates","tag-one","tag-other-information","tag-post","tag-voter","tag-wbal-news","tag-wbal-tv","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}