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Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia

https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-influence-campaign-russia/
37•sam_lowry_•1h ago

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metalman•1h ago
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•57m ago
>Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

Pull the other one. It's got bells on.

jimbob45•45m ago
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•38m ago
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?
thin_carapace•34m ago
mixing languages results in huge hallucination increase from my experience
MomsAVoxell•36m ago
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•33m ago
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.
tyre•19m ago
Ideally our government would regulate this, but our government is an absolute dumpster fire intent on destroying respect for America and gives no care for what’s best for its people.

So, you know, we gotta take what we can get

pferde•12m ago
If there's a big centralized service that a lot of people use, there will always be the temptation to abuse it to influence those people.
hackernud3s•31m ago
Does it seem strange that Russia would go with Israel to astroturf credibility?
venzaspa•20m ago
It depends on who your target audience is.
villish•2m ago
Evangelical Christians are the target audience. They are strong supporters of Israel because of their interpretation of the bible.
__coder__•16m ago
Why didn't they used any Chinese open models?
edu•1m ago
How many user do the Chinese open models have and how many users do OpenAI have?
trueno•14m ago
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•11m ago
Why didn't Russia just use local models?
edu•2m ago
Because they want to influence the mainstream outside of their frontiers.

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