OpenAI, Meta and other tech giants sign effort to fight AI election interference

A group of 20 tech companies announced on Friday they have agreed to work together to prevent deceptive artificial-intelligence content from interfering with elections across the globe this year.

The rapid growth of generative artificial intelligence (AI), which can create text, images and video in seconds in response to prompts, has heightened fears that the new technology could be used to sway major elections this year, as more than half of the world's population is set to head to the polls.

Signatories of the tech accord, which was announced at the Munich Security Conference, include companies that are building generative AI models used to create content, including OpenAI, Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab and Adobe (ADBE.O), opens new tab. Other signatories include social media platforms that will face the challenge of keeping harmful content off their sites, such as Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab, TikTok and X, formerly known as Twitter.