Generative artificial intelligence in the electoral processes of 2024 in the world: disinformation campaigns and online trolls

The article conducts research and presents some conclusions about the role of generative artificial intelligence in electoral processes. Most of the election campaigns of the heads of state and parliament of the countries of the world involve the use of modern information and communication, digital technologies and artificial intelligence technologies. The use of artificial intelligence in an election campaign can help improve the efficiency and effectiveness of a campaign, but it can also lead to misinformation of the public. Today, destructive attempts to influence people, societies and entire states are no longer new challenges on the Internet, in connection with which outright lies, political propaganda, incitement to hatred, manipulative technologies are firmly rooted in the Internet space and the latest technologies are actively used for this. The use of bots, or automated social media accounts, has greatly facilitated the dissemination of deliberately false information, as well as false rumors and other types of misinformation. However, the bots used earlier in the elections often produced poorly constructed, grammatically incorrect sentences. Now that the creation of large language models (artificial intelligence systems that create text) is becoming more accessible to more people, some researchers fear that automated social media accounts will soon become much more convincing. Disinformation campaigns and online trolls will increasingly use generative AI to spread false information about elections. Thus, new technologies can cause some harm to the social security of society.