Tech platforms should be cautious of voter deception before the election, according to a warning from the California attorney general.

• Big social media and AI tech companies should intensify their efforts to safeguard voters from "deception, intimidation, and dissuasion," advised California Attorney General Rob Bonta.
• The CEOs of Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Reddit, TikTok, X, and YouTube received a letter from Bonta.
• After Taylor Swift criticized the circulation of AI-generated images falsely stating that she had endorsed Donald Trump, the letter was written.

Rob Bonta, the Attorney General of California, advised tech company executives to intensify their efforts to safeguard voters from "deception, intimidation, and dissuasion" prior to the November election.

In a letter to the CEOs of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, OpenAI, Reddit, TikTok, X, and YouTube, Bonta emphasized the importance of preventing the misuse of social media and artificial intelligence services to deceive voters about their right to vote in upcoming elections.

The review of California law sections prohibiting interference with voting rights through misleading information and intimidation tactics was conducted in the letter.

Bonta wrote that California law generally prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media of a candidate appearing on the ballot within 60 days of an election with actual malice, with the intent to harm the candidate's reputation or deceive a voter into voting for or against the candidate.

Following the debate, Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris for president on Tuesday night, and criticized those who spread false rumors that she had endorsed Donald Trump using AI-generated images.

Elon Musk, the owner of X, recently shared an AI-generated image depicting Harris as a communist dictator on his platform, while Trump had previously posted a series of images on his Truth Social platform.

""Can you believe she wears that outfit!" Musk, who has endorsed Trump, wrote in a post on X on Sept. 2."

These AI tools, including Google's Gemini, OpenAI's Dall-E and Chat GPT, Microsoft copilot, and Grok made by Musk's xAI, enable users to quickly generate images and text based on prompts or questions. In August, an updated version of Grok-2 was released, with few limitations on creating fake images of political figures.

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