Hillary Clinton warns AI tech will make 2016 election disinformation 'look primitive'

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described herself as a victim of election disinformation during a panel discussion on Thursday, and warned that the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) will make her experience "look primitive."

Clinton was taking part in a Columbia University event titled, "AI’s Impact on the 2024 Global Elections."

She discussed her own experience in 2016 when she lost to former President Donald Trump, pointing out that the internet was populated with memes, fake content and conspiracies about her in the lead-up to Election Day.

"I don't think any of us understood it. I did not understand it. I can tell you, my campaign did not understand it. Their, you know, the so-called ‘Dark Web’ was filled with these kinds of memes and stories and videos of all sorts…portraying me in all kinds of… less than flattering ways," Clinton said. "And we knew something's going on, but we didn't understand the full extent of the very clever way in which it was insinuated into social media."

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Clinton argued it was that leap to social media that accelerated the false content’s integration with everyday Americans.

"There are people today who think I've done all these terrible things because