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Shit. I could have told them to just block lemmygrad for like $100 😂🤣😂

Just a reminder, LLMs are not designed to provide truth, but rather naturally sounding word generation.

After WWII in Germany, the cool young people knew you couldn't trust anyone over 30.

Nowadays, cool people need to understand that you can't trust anything bland and sanitized-sounding on the internet. For the rest of our lives, your personhood is on trial with everything you say.

It could tear society apart before we even know it's happening.

Ah yes, American truths like "Iraq has WMDs and that's why invading them is the fair and just thing to do," "abortion is bad for human rights," "the US isn't collecting all of your internet traffic because that would be a violation of privacy," and "this CIA-funded coup of a democratically-elected government will definitely help spread democracy around the world."

This researcher has built a pro-America AI disinformation machine for $400. I expect that, like most American media, it will start citing "independent think tanks" like Atlantic Council (which, coincidentally, is staffed mostly by ex-US intelligence and receives funding from US intelligence agencies) and use reports gathered by "independent sources" such as the US 4th PsyOps Airborne (which, per their recent recruiting videos, admits to orchestrating large-scale protests including Euromaidan, Tiananmen Square, and others).

Some actual low-res examples:

https://thedebrief.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Screenshot-2023-08-15-at-10.44.44-AM-1024x804.png

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Russian criticism of the US is far from unusual, but CounterCloud’s material pushing back was: The tweets, the articles, and even the journalists and news sites were crafted entirely by artificial intelligence algorithms, according to the person behind the project, who goes by the name Nea Paw and says it is designed to highlight the danger of mass-produced AI disinformation.

Mitigations are possible, such as educating users to be watchful for manipulative AI-generated content, making generative AI systems try to block misuse, or equipping browsers with AI-detection tools.

In recent years, disinformation researchers have warned that AI language models could be used to craft highly personalized propaganda campaigns, and to power social media accounts that interact with users in sophisticated ways.

Renee DiResta, technical research manager for the Stanford Internet Observatory, which tracks information campaigns, says the articles and journalist profiles generated as part of the CounterCloud project are fairly convincing.

“In addition to government actors, social media management agencies and mercenaries who offer influence operations services will no doubt pick up these tools and incorporate them into their workflows,” DiResta says.

The CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, said in a Tweet last month that he is concerned that his company’s artificial intelligence could be used to create tailored, automated disinformation on a massive scale.

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So is it against Russian disinformation, or is does it make anti Russia disinformation? I'd hope the former, it's easy enough to refute Russia with correct information.

OpenAI is so concerned that AI will do x and y bad thing but still pour all these resources into developing it further.

So this is why Elon is suddenly more upset than usual about bots

Only $400? Where can I buy one?

Honestly, if you look at it in a vacuum, this looks pretty similar to what the other side is doing.

It's a bot that draws from its own side's narratives and pushes that line.

Take away Russia from the picture and think about how often our media pushes a spin on other subjects that isn't exactly the truth.

Doesn't look so much like "social media propaganda bots versus AI-driven bots arguing back" as much as propaganda bots on both sides spewing whatever their masters want us to see.