Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia

metalman

unfortunatly it appears to me that Russia has gone from doing good service providing a reasonable counter narative to the US/west, has become lazy and resorted to promoting convienient irrational and extreamist naratives present at the fringes of western societies, but worse for them and us, is that they are now consuming the excess product and activly meddling, not that our various 3 and 4 letter agencys are refraing from operating there, but it's all tedious and evil mean spirited, lacking any identifiable moral or cultural basis, just a dirty fight for power on both sides.

GolfPopper

> Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Pull the other one. It's got bells on.

jimbob45

We recently banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts originating in Russia We banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts that very likely originated in Russia. Methinks AI helped write this. Although…their evidence is pretty damning.

andOlga

Even as a speaker of the language I haven't a single bloody clue what a "hazzy" is. Is ChatGPT normally this bad at being prompted in one language to generate text in another, or is this an operator fuckup, I wonder?

MomsAVoxell

We should be tracking and identifying all covert influence campaigns, from all states - not just Russia - and collecting a registry of these efforts for wide public distribution. We should also be tracking and identifying all covert influence campaigns of our own government, too, while we’re at it. In fact, all covert influence, everywhere, should be identified and made overt. It is the covert nature of the influence that is the most insidious aspect, incompatible with free and open society. So yeah, let’s start at home by disassembling the national security apparatus which allows covert influence to be wielded against The People. After all, anything less than full exposure is hypocrisy. More leaks now! Perhaps there will be an application of LLM’s towards identifying covert influence, which we can apply to a corpus and identify its true authorship. This would be pretty useful for a lot of things, eh ..

dandaka

This got me mixed feelings. I don't support such campaigns. Still I would prefer my AI tool to behave more like a notepad app and less like a government or a corporate censor.

hackernud3s

Does it seem strange that Russia would go with Israel to astroturf credibility?

__coder__

Why didn't they used any Chinese open models?

trueno

i think a lot of people don't realize how far not just nation-states are willing to go, but bajillionaire entities are willing to go to control any given narrative now that AI is so accessible. ig comments, tiktok comments, reddit comments, hn comments, on seemingly innocuous and harmless content, just out there trying to look real and game the perception. these entities are well aware that people go to comments and discussion for "the real tea" and yeah. marketing behemoths offer "social media engagement" packages to entities like disney to push trailer hype. flood youtube and other socials with fake content engagement. i remember within the first like minute disney dropped the latest tron trailer on youtube, it was absolutely flooded with "i'm not ready" "omggggg" caliber comments from seemingly real looking youtube profiles. bring back lan parties, aol instant messenger and throw the current platforms into the sun

0-_-0

Why didn't Russia just use local models?

fsuts

Open Ai is fighting for defence and other state contracts in USA and similar minded countries Writing about Russia negatively is in their interests, in reality all nation states are doing the same stuff “We banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts that very likely originated in Russia. The operators prompted in Russian to generate social media comments that were posted on Substack, Telegram, X, Facebook and LinkedIn. Most of the comments they generated were in English, and the operators instructed ChatGPT to hide any linguistic clues that they were Russian. ” They replaced them the next day with English speakers and carried on as normal

secondary_op

Do not use US based AI, OpenAI, or Ben Nimmo (highly likely the author of this article) or any similar minion of The Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) of the Atlantic Council of the NATO could read all your chat history and leverage all the data on you up to your social media accounts and foreign state data. Securing Our Autonomy: How AI Fuels Cognitive Warfare – and How We Can Fight Back https://youtu.be/jH2i0Y9GjJc?t=1273 https://youtu.be/jH2i0Y9GjJc?t=2536 https://youtu.be/jH2i0Y9GjJc?t=2880 So the question then becomes how can these technologies be leveraged in such a way to be able to maximize signal intelligence, communication intelligence with human intelligence. And this is where AI really began to play a role with regard to big data. The more data you have about individuals as those individuals relate and engage in their collectives and ecologies, the more you know about them, what makes them tick. We here in the United States and among our technological and scientific allies recognize the benefit of this as do our international peer competitors scientifically, technologically, bioeconomically, economically, and certainly militarily, and geopolitically. this idea of precision engagement with regard to being able to get intel about various human targets individually and collectively. Either high priority targets as individuals or groups that may be highly prioritized as individuals. What are their needs? What are their likes? What are their patterns? What are their spends? What are their vulnerabilities? Biocschosocial vulnerabilities and how can those be not only accessed utilizing big data and AI but accessed in the cognitive space but very often in the physical space as well. - the National Defense University dude sitting next to the author of this article. OpenAI's China Report, Meta Trains America & the Pentagon Blacklist https://youtu.be/H_WaQl_Q17Q?t=3286

tuesdaynight

People would be uncomfortable if the truth about how much influence nation-states have in the online discourse nowadays was really exposed. I don't mean only bots, but how many political influencers are receiving money from adversaries, from all over the spectrum, without they even knowing who is paying them. American people would feel like LATAM countries, which are used to be heavily influenced by external countries.