PULLMAN, Wash., Oct. 28 -- Washington State University issued the following news release:
Bad actors seeking to misinform potential voters are taking a new approach.
Rather than creating deceptive articles and websites to fool individuals, they've turned their attention to manipulating artificial intelligence. By targeting the data models AI systems are trained on, as well as flooding the web with inaccuracies, groups attempting to influence elections are aiming to corrupt the answers provided by chatbots and those increasingly popular AI summaries that appear atop web browser search results.
It's a process known as algorithmic poisoning.
Washington State University political scientist Thessalia Merivaki has been watching the manipulati...