Russia beating the West with its own tech/AI weapons:
>”We face systems that can generate… persuasion at scale, for pennies. To me this is a revolution in political influence and none of our current governance schemes are ready to address it”.
>The videos – some of which garner hundreds of thousands of views – discredit EU institutions and accuse the Kyiv government of corruption just as it vies for funding from Western partners to fight into the fifth year of a full-scale invasion from Russia.
>The recent uptick comes several months after OpenAI released Sora2, the latest iteration of its video-generating software that has made a leap in the realism of the product it offers.
“They need to draw in users,” said Russian AI expert Arman Tuganbaev, adding that while OpenAI is trying to thwart attempts to create videos of specific people, “second-tier apps will give you that option”.
>Unlike traditional Russian propaganda outlets like media companies RT and Sputnik, which the West swiftly sanctioned at the start of the invasion of Ukraine, such campaigns “allow for a level of… plausible deniability that complicates counter-influence efforts”, said Sophie Williams-Dunning, a cyber and tech researcher at the Royal United Services Institute think tank.
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>Researchers at Clemson University linked a separate network, branded Storm-1516 by Microsoft’s Threat Analysis Centre, to veterans of the Kremlin “troll factory” run by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the paramilitary Wagner group, before his death in 2023.
>In an upcoming study seen by the BBC, the academics shared an example of the speed at which fake news travels on social media.
>Each time they saw Storm-1516 campaign put out a false narrative about Volodymyr Zelensky being “corrupt”, for example, that narrative took over roughly 7.5% of all discussions about the Ukrainian president on X in the following week.
>”That is something any marketing company would be proud of,” said Darren L. Linvill, one of the paper’s authors.
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Is it on twitter?? Then russia need not do any specific thing to do disinformation. Musk’s algorithms are good enough for that.
I have never seen twitter behave like this. U Like one post about anything then ur feed is filled with the same topic
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Russia beating the West with its own tech/AI weapons:
>”We face systems that can generate… persuasion at scale, for pennies. To me this is a revolution in political influence and none of our current governance schemes are ready to address it”.
>The videos – some of which garner hundreds of thousands of views – discredit EU institutions and accuse the Kyiv government of corruption just as it vies for funding from Western partners to fight into the fifth year of a full-scale invasion from Russia.
>The recent uptick comes several months after OpenAI released Sora2, the latest iteration of its video-generating software that has made a leap in the realism of the product it offers.
“They need to draw in users,” said Russian AI expert Arman Tuganbaev, adding that while OpenAI is trying to thwart attempts to create videos of specific people, “second-tier apps will give you that option”.
>Unlike traditional Russian propaganda outlets like media companies RT and Sputnik, which the West swiftly sanctioned at the start of the invasion of Ukraine, such campaigns “allow for a level of… plausible deniability that complicates counter-influence efforts”, said Sophie Williams-Dunning, a cyber and tech researcher at the Royal United Services Institute think tank.
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>Researchers at Clemson University linked a separate network, branded Storm-1516 by Microsoft’s Threat Analysis Centre, to veterans of the Kremlin “troll factory” run by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the paramilitary Wagner group, before his death in 2023.
>In an upcoming study seen by the BBC, the academics shared an example of the speed at which fake news travels on social media.
>Each time they saw Storm-1516 campaign put out a false narrative about Volodymyr Zelensky being “corrupt”, for example, that narrative took over roughly 7.5% of all discussions about the Ukrainian president on X in the following week.
>”That is something any marketing company would be proud of,” said Darren L. Linvill, one of the paper’s authors.
Is it on twitter?? Then russia need not do any specific thing to do disinformation. Musk’s algorithms are good enough for that.
I have never seen twitter behave like this. U Like one post about anything then ur feed is filled with the same topic