Impact of AI-Generated Content on Political Persuasion
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What is one potential positive influence of generative AI on politics?

  • Undermining democratic accountability
  • Bolstering civic engagement by helping navigate bureaucracy and draft letters (correct)
  • Producing disinformation and misinformation at scale
  • Interfering with democratic representation

What is the potential negative impact of generative AI on politics?

  • Interfering with democratic representation
  • Undermining democratic accountability
  • Bolstering civic engagement by helping navigate bureaucracy and draft letters
  • Producing disinformation and misinformation at scale (correct)

What is ChatGPT's achievement within a month of its introduction?

  • Became the fastest-growing application in history for finance
  • Reached five-million monthly users in a year
  • Reached one-million monthly users in three-and-a-half years
  • Hit 100-million monthly users (correct)

Which measure is suggested as a potential guardrail against misuses of generative AI?

<p>All of the above (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How does the meteoric rise of ChatGPT compare to Netflix's growth?

<p>ChatGPT achieved 100-million monthly users faster than Netflix reached one-million users (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the major questions doctrine as articulated in West Virginia v. EPA (2022)?

<p>Agencies must have clear statutory authorization from Congress to effect major changes in policy (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the Chevon doctrine?

<p>It gives agencies broad latitude to interpret ambiguous congressional statutes (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How did the U.S. government's e-rulemaking program aim to enhance public participation?

<p>By lowering the barrier to citizen input (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is 'astroturfing' in the context of e-rulemaking platforms?

<p>A coordinated effort to mislead with unique comments (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How can generative AI technology impact electoral integrity?

<p>By revolutionizing disinformation campaigns and microtargeting (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a suggested measure to detect AI-generated content?

<p>Using neural networks to identify patterns of AI-generated text (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why is political persuasion difficult in a polarized political landscape?

<p>Because individual views are often entrenched (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the text suggest could further undermine trust in government?

<p>The proliferation of AI-generated content eroding trust in media (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is one responsibility mentioned for generative AI platforms?

<p>To democratize the values encoded in their algorithms (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a suggested role for digital-literacy campaigns?

<p>Guarding against the adverse effects of generative AI by creating a more informed consumer (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is one of the central pillars of democratic governance that is threatened by generative AI?

<p>Representation (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did the field experiment conducted in 2020 reveal about legislators' ability to discern AI-generated communications?

<p>They had a lower response rate to AI-generated emails (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the passage suggest could potentially skew legislators' perceptions of their constituents' preferences?

<p>Generative AI-generated communications (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is one of the fears associated with generative AI mentioned in the passage?

<p>Influence on democratic representation through mass, phony inputs (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the most problematic aspect of generative AI according to the passage?

<p>It produces enormous volumes of meaningless drivel and misinformation (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What should individuals adopt when consuming media content?

<p>A 'trust but verify' approach (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How does the article suggest people can recognize inauthentic content?

<p>By cross-checking with multiple media outlets (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are some potential benefits of generative AI according to the article?

<p>Economic, medical, and political benefits (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the article suggest individuals should do to combat the proliferation of AI-generated content?

<p>Verify the authenticity of digital content across different media outlets (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What might drive a person to ignore the veracity of a story according to the article?

<p>Confirmation bias (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the potential impact of AI-generated misinformation on democratic accountability?

<p>It could greatly heighten desensitization and undermine democratic accountability (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

According to the text, what is the role of technology in online misinformation?

<p>To amplify online misinformation (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Andrew M. Guess, Brendan Nyhan, and Jason Reifler study in their research?

<p>The exposure to untrustworthy websites in the 2016 US election (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

According to the text, what could AI-generated propaganda potentially achieve?

<p>Persuade individuals and influence public opinion (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the focus of Lewis Anthony Dexter's research?

<p>What Congressmen hear: The mail (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is one of the potential positive impacts of generative AI on politics?

<p>Enhancing democratic representation and civic engagement (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is one of the fears associated with generative AI mentioned in the passage?

<p>Producing disinformation and misinformation at scale (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What measure is suggested to detect AI-generated content?

<p>Neural networks used to identify generated content (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did ChatGPT achieve within a month of its introduction, as mentioned in the passage?

<p>Hit 100-million monthly users (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a suggested guardrail for misuses of generative AI mentioned in the passage?

<p>Self-regulation by generative-AI platforms (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is one of the central pillars of democratic governance that is threatened by generative AI?

<p>Transparency (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How does the article suggest people can recognize inauthentic content?

<p>By cross-checking information across different media outlets (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What should individuals adopt when consuming media content?

<p>A 'trust but verify' approach (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is one potential positive influence of generative AI on politics?

<p>Assisting in identifying inauthentic content (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is one responsibility mentioned for generative AI platforms?

<p>Safeguarding against misinformation (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did the study by Andrew M. Guess, Brendan Nyhan, and Jason Reifler focus on?

<p>The limited effects of 2016 election misinformation (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is one of the fears associated with generative AI mentioned in the passage?

<p>Undermining democratic accountability (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

According to the passage, what could AI-generated misinformation greatly heighten, potentially undermining democratic accountability?

<p>Desensitization - the relationship between incumbent performance and voter beliefs (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the role of technology identified in Sarah Kreps' research at the Brookings Institution?

<p>Contributing to online misinformation (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Lewis Anthony Dexter's research focus on?

<p>The mail and its impact on public opinion (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is one of the concerns raised by the U.S. Supreme Court in West Virginia v. EPA (2022)?

<p>The lack of clear statutory authorization from Congress for major changes in policy by agencies (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did the introduction of the U.S. government's e-rulemaking (e-rulemaking) program aim to achieve?

<p>Enhance public participation to foster better regulatory decisions (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is one potential negative impact of generative AI on electoral integrity?

<p>Flooding sites with fake reviews and misinformation (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How did malicious actors exploit technology to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election?

<p>By coordinating efforts to mislead through targeted advertisements and falsified news articles (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is one of the threats to democratic trust posed by advances in generative AI?

<p>Producing misinformation, including content microtargeted to appeal to specific demographics and individuals, at scale (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the potential risk associated with the proliferation of AI-generated content, according to the passage?

<p>Decrease in social trust and democratic values (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is one suggested measure to detect AI-generated content, as mentioned in the text?

<p>Training and deploying machine-learning models to detect AI-generated content (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the role of social-media platforms and generative AI platforms in the context of ethical decision-making, as discussed in the passage?

<p>They are responsible for creating technology with ethically and politically informed values (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is suggested as a role for digital-literacy campaigns, based on the information in the passage?

<p>To create a more informed consumer against the adverse effects of generative AI (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How does the passage describe the potential impact of generative AI on trust in government?

<p>It could seriously threaten confidence in the government (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the most significant threat posed by generative AI to democratic governance?

<p>Diminishing legislators' ability to discern constituent sentiment (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How did a 2020 field experiment reveal the impact of AI-generated communications on legislators?

<p>Only a small decrease in response rates to AI-generated emails (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What potential risk does generative AI pose to the regulatory state?

<p>Rendering citizens' influence obsolete (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What challenge does the passage highlight in discerning between human-written and machine-generated communications for legislators?

<p>Malicious actors' capability to generate false messages (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the potential downside of generative AI for public trust in a political system?

<p>Increased reliance on partisanship (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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