OpenAI says Russian and Israeli groups used its tools to spread disinformation

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/30/openai-disinformation-russia-israel-china-iran

Networks in China and Iran also used AI models to create and post disinformation but campaigns did not reach large audiences

In Russia, two operations created and spread content criticizing the US, Ukraine and several Baltic nations. One of the operations used an OpenAI model to debug code and create a bot that posted on Telegram. China’s influence operation generated text in English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean, which operatives then posted on Twitter and Medium.

Iranian actors generated full articles that attacked the US and Israel, which they translated into English and French. An Israeli political firm called Stoic ran a network of fake social media accounts which created a range of content, including posts accusing US student protests against Israel’s war in Gaza of being antisemitic.

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frog@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Techbros once again surprised at how their technology is used.

The other breaking headlines for today:

Shock discovery that water is wet.

Toddler discovers that fire is hot after touching it.

Bears shits in woods.

Pope revealed to be Catholic.

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- eveninghere@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  We aren’t naive. We all knew this will happen. But it was better than banning AI in the free world and giving dictators advantages in AI tech.
  
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  - frog@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Ah, the old “the only way to stop a bad person with a gun is for all the good people to have guns” argument.
    
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  - Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    it was better than banning AI in the free world and giving dictators advantages in AI tech.
    
    The US doesn’t need to ban AI. It just needs to stop publicly deploying it, untested and unregulated, on the masses. And some of these big tech companies need to stop releasing open models that can be easily obtained and abused by bad actors. Dictatorships don’t actually like AI internally, because it threatens their control of the narrative within their country. For example, the CCP has been very cautious of it when compared to the US because it is concerned about how it could be employed against the party.
    
    And this whole arms race argument sort of ignores the fact that the US continuing to mass deploy this shit at breakneck speed is already giving the dictators the advantages they need to fuck with democracy. No one needs to have a real war with the US if it starts one with itself.
    
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- DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  AI told me the Pope shit in the woods and that bears are Catholic.
  
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  - frog@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    And probably also that water is hot and fire is wet?
    
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SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
No shit, Sherlock.

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c0smokram3r@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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- davehtaylor@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You mean to tell me that the purpose-built disinformation machine that you developed has been used by malicious actors to spread disinformation?!
  
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autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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OpenAI on Thursday released its first ever report on how its artificial intelligence tools are being used for covert influence operations, revealing that the company had disrupted disinformation campaigns originating from Russia, China, Israel and Iran. As generative AI has become a booming industry, there has been widespread concern among researchers and lawmakers over its potential for increasing the quantity and quality of online disinformation. OpenAI claimed its researchers found and banned accounts associated with five covert influence operations over the past three months, which were from a mix of state and private actors. An Israeli political firm called Stoic ran a network of fake social media accounts which created a range of content, including posts accusing US student protests against Israel’s war in Gaza of being antisemitic. The US treasury sanctioned two Russian men in March who were allegedly behind one of the campaigns that OpenAI detected, while Meta also banned Stoic from its platform this year for violating its policies. OpenAI stated that it plans to periodically release similar reports on covert influence operations, as well as remove accounts that violate its policies. — Saved 67% of original text.

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beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Oh hi anyone who monitors my posts accusing other users of being potentially disinfo bots — as if that totally isn’t a thing we all know about at this point

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