China is using fake social media accounts to sow division in elections and has increased its use of AI-generated content to further its goals around the world. These are among the Microsoft Threat Intelligence insights in the latest East Asia report published today by the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center (MTAC)
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The topics that the article claims that China was “just asking questions” about include…
Claims that the Maui wildfire was started by a secret US weather weapon.
Claims that a train derailment in Kentucky was a deliberate cover up for something sinister.
Claims that the US purposely poisons other countries water supplies.
They are not asking questions to better understand political issues. They are stoking the rabid conspiracy theorists to destabilize the US.
Which is exactly what you’d expect if they ran AI to ask questions? Topics and controversies are going to pop up a lot. A bot would obviously re-ask about it as they see many people talking about it. It would be more surprising if it didn’t ask about issues that were stirring controversies.
You sure have a whole lot of words to explain away what’s pretty obvious.
Copying software copies, therefore evil. Did I dumb it down for you?
You understand that AIs are created by human beings, yes?
You understand that they do not mysteriously decide to do unethical things, yes? Because they are trained and created to do so.
Idk what the fuck you’re on about.
This is the poorest understanding of AI I have ever read. The whole point of AI is that it can create things that it’s original creator would not have. The whole fear of AI is even though it’s created by humans we question if we can control it. And that fear is what leads people to talk about how it’s mysteriously deciding to do things that could be unethical.
So, learn how AI works before opening your mouth.
*Edit. Also, this fear of AI magically doing unethical things is the one thing China and USA agrees on.
Yeah I’m gonna stop you right there monkey. I don’t care what the point of AI is, I care about what AI is.
Machine learning, at its core, is ultimately a series of if- then statements. The AI did not randomly align itself with conspiracy theories.
Idiot. Either that or you’re just going off in knee-jerk defense of China, which makes you that and worse.
Oh my god, machine learning is not AI. It’s a subset of AI. Do you not understand intelligence? It’s not just the learning aspect. Yes, you need to learn to be intelligent, but you also need to generate. I’m giving you a hint to the other subset of AI that you don’t seem to know about.
At the end of the day, a human still has to approve what it’s posting. Not to mention that said humans can also direct it down a particular path. And in this case they are intentionally directing it to post about stupid conspiracy theories to rile up the right wing conspiracy nutters.