As the November 3 midterm congressional elections approach, a large number of artificial intelligence-generated campaign advertisements called “spam propaganda” by researchers have appeared on US television and social media. Many ads are aimed at attacking campaign opponents, and are not labeled as AI-generated. According to news on the 26th, the “Wesleyan Media Project” organization that tracks the US election said it had identified 220 political advertisements generated at least partially using AI tools across the country, at a total cost of over 137 million US dollars. By contrast, the organization identified spending less than $50,000 on AI-generated ads during the 2024 election cycle. The organization said 81% of these AI-generated ads were sponsored by Republican candidates or groups, 12% were sponsored by Democrats, and the rest were sponsored by independent candidates or groups. However, due to the difficulty of comprehensive statistics, the overall number of AI political advertisements is largely underestimated. Furthermore, most AI political advertisements do not include words such as “wholly or partly generated by AI.” According to reports, this has made voters who are already plagued by false information about the election even more confused.

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