20 Tech Giants Agree To Fight Hazardous AI Content During The 2024 Election Period

JAKARTA - At the Munich Security Conference (MSC), 20 tech giants including Adobe, Amazon, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAl, TikTok, have agreed to fight dangerous Al content.

The agreement, which was approved on Friday, February 16, is the company's commitment to helping prevent AI counterfeiting in the 2024 General Election, which took place in more than 40 countries.

In this agreement, the 20 companies will cooperate and collaborate in finding tools to detect and overcome the online distribution of Al content, encourage education campaigns, and provide transparency, as well as other concrete measures.

The types of digital content included in this agreement consist of Al's audio, video, and images that cheat or change the appearance, voice, or actions of political candidates, election officials, and other major stakeholders.

Currently, the signings are: Adobe, Amazon, Anthropic, Arm, ElevenLabs, Google, IBM, Inflection Al, LinkedIn, McAfee, Meta, Microsoft, Nota, OpenAI, Snap Inc., Stability Al, TikTok, Trend Micro, Truepic, and X.

"Amazon is committed to upholding democracy and the Munich Agreement complements our current efforts to build and implement reliable, secure and secure new Al technology," said David Zapolsky, Senior Vice President of Global Public Policy and Public Advisory at Amazon in an official statement, quoted on Sunday, February 18.

Google's President of Global Affairs, Kent Walker also said that Google has supported election integrity for years, and this agreement reflects their commitment to election misinformation generated by Al which erodes trust.

"With so many large elections taking place this year, it is important for us to do what we can to prevent people from being deceived by Al's content," said Nick Clegg, President, Global Affairs on Meta.