The logical end of the ‘Solution to bad speech is better speech’ has arrived in the age of state-sponsored social media propaganda bots versus AI-driven bots arguing back
The logical end of the ‘Solution to bad speech is better speech’ has arrived in the age of state-sponsored social media propaganda bots versus AI-driven bots arguing back
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).
Have you seen any tweet this bot generated that would contain misinformation? Because I haven’t.
What is the context for Iraq WMDs? I haven’t seen it anywhere in the article?
Is anyone arguing that, at the time of the Iraq War, it wasn’t considered a “truth” in America that Iraq was developing WMDs and that anything to the contrary was considered disinformation?
So is the bot not pointing out obvious lies with links to factual data or what is your point? Can you link me to an example of bot using shaky arguments?
And the WMD claims stood on shaky legs from very beginning, many countries like Germany opposed use of force in Iraq. Perhaps we’d benefit from bot correcting false narratives in real time had this technology been available at the time.
The bot doesn’t know what’s “real” or not though - it’s a large language model, not a model of the real world. All it knows is what it’s been told in its training data.
What makes you say that this new disinformation machine is pro-America?