Study: AI exacerbates dangers of digital populism

Disinformation campaigns and fake news have already influenced elections around the world in recent years, growing the electorate of populist parties. With the use of large-scale language models and artificial intelligence, the danger of populist actors further undermining the democratic process is increasing: „If we think about next year’s European elections, the existing rules on content moderation, as provided for in the Digital Services Act (DSA), are already outdated in the age of generative AI,“ warns Berlin-based digital expert Anselm Küsters.