{"id":215135,"date":"2026-05-17T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/election-officials-remove-ai-generated-ads\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T00:05:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T04:05:25","slug":"election-officials-remove-ai-generated-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/election-officials-remove-ai-generated-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Election officials remove AI-generated ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbaltv.com\/article\/ai-generated-ads-errors-elections-maryland\/71330921\">Election officials remove AI-generated ads<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbaltv.com\/article\/ai-generated-ads-errors-elections-maryland\/71330921\">https:\/\/www.wbaltv.com\/article\/ai-generated-ads-errors-elections-maryland\/71330921<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-17 22:37:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wbaltv.com\">www.wbaltv.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Voters have noticed advertisements for election judge recruitment generated by AI on social media and some question the accuracy of election information due to perceived errors in the AI-generated content.<\/li>\n<li>Many voters described the posts as &#8220;sloppy&#8221; or &#8220;not revised,&#8221; pointing out design flaws such as incorrect flag patterns and unnatural imagery like a thumbs up coming from a stomach.<\/li>\n<li>The Baltimore County Board of Elections strictly prohibits AI-generated material, while the Baltimore City Board allows it but requires peer review; both bodies have taken down problematic ads from their pages.<\/li>\n<li>There is mixed public reaction to the AI ads; some voters feel less confident in election integrity behind the scenes, while others believe it is just a marketing mistake and does not affect their trust in election information.<\/li>\n<li>Both boards have assured the public that these errors will not recur, emphasizing measures to prevent future issues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election officials remove AI-generated ads https:\/\/www.wbaltv.com\/article\/ai-generated-ads-errors-elections-maryland\/71330921 Publish Date: 2026-05-17 22:37:00 Source Domain: www.wbaltv.com Voters have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/kubrick.htvapps.com\/vidthumb\/1306032b-f086-4024-8568-f59a8c833baa\/2839ea24-e5cb-45bf-b3ed-34aba2258464.jpg?crop=1xw:1.0xh;center,top&resize=1200:*","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215137,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215135\/revisions\/215137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}