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Swedish Prime Minister Pulls AI Campaign Tool After It Was Used to Ask Hitler for Support

Sweden's Moderate party allowed users to make the PM hold a sign bearing any name they wanted. You know what happened next.
Swedish Prime Minister Pulls AI Campaign Tool After It Was Used to Ask Hitler for Support
TV4 Sceengrab.

The Moderate Party of Sweden has removed an AI tool from its website after people used it to generate videos of Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson asking Adolf Hitler for support.The tool allowed users to generate videos of Kristersson holding an AI-generated message in an attempt to promote the candidate ahead of the general election in Sweden next year.

Swedish television station TV4 used the tool to generate a video of Kristersson on a newspaper above the headline “Sweden needs Adolf Hitler” after it noticed that it had no guardrails or filters.

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