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ChatGPT can tailor political ads to match users' personalities

Generative AI can rewrite political adverts on social media to target users with different personality types, making it easier to manipulate elections using personal data on a large scale

By Chris Stokel-Walker

20 February 2024

Social media users can be exposed to highly targeted political adverts

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Artificial intelligence could be used to present precisely targeted messages to voters at scale, boosting the power of online political campaigns.

Microtargeting 鈥 the use of online data to tailor messaging to individuals 鈥 has been used to powerful effect in past elections and became the focus of a 2018 scandal when journalists exposed the work of political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica in the US and other countries.

鈥淲hen people are microtargeted based on their personality…

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