NY AG Letitia James calls on large tech companies to protect voters form election-related misinformation [Video]

NEW YORK (WABC) — New York Attorney General Letitia James is asking nearly a dozen large tech companies to take meaningful steps to protect voters from election-related misinformation, according to a letter obtained exclusively by ABC News.

“While misinformation has been a concern in past elections, with the rise of gen AI, barriers that prevent bad actors from creating deceptive or misleading content have weakened dramatically,” said the letter, which was sent to ten social media and AI companies, including Meta, Google and OpenAI.

Deceptive and misleading content about the 2024 presidential election has been circulating online and the attorney general is particularly concerned about generative AI that’s making it hard to distinguish fact from fiction.

In an altered campaign video of Vice President Kamala Harris, her original audio had been swapped out and replaced with an AI voice-clone mimicking her voice to make her say things she never said. The creator posted the …