NYTimes reporting about an #Israel influence operation, using fake X accounts with #ChatGPT-powered talking points, to influence US legislators, public opinion:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/technology/israel-campaign-gaza-social-media.html
[sorry, it's paywalled]
@seanlawson and I are publishing articles about this exact sort of masspersonal #socialEngineering right now. It's only going to get worse.
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Robert W. Gehl
in reply to Robert W. Gehl • • •We have a short summary of our argument about #ChatGPT/generative AI and its potential uses in political propaganda here:
https://theconversation.com/chatbots-can-be-used-to-create-manipulative-content-understanding-how-this-works-can-help-address-it-207187
Basically, we argue things won't be structurally or procedurally different than past #SocialEngineering -- but they will be much more intense.
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Chatbots can be used to create manipulative content — understanding how this works can help address it
The ConversationRobert W. Gehl
in reply to Robert W. Gehl • • •I think the best mitigation for us on the #fediverse is to remain small -- that is, have many, many small instances where people are more likely to know one another, with application-style registration rather than open registration.
This is a good argument against federating with large, open, for-profit platforms (I'm looking at you, #Threads).
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