RAPPLER | Philippine & World News | Investigative Journalism | Data | Civic Engagement | Public InterestJan 14[DECODED] AI as ‘alien intelligence’
RAPPLER | Philippine & World News | Investigative Journalism | Data | Civic Engagement | Public InterestJan 14
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Zuckerberg et al, responsible for the development and introduction of a novel Information Operation that was the stuff of science fiction. Through his centralized social media products, Zuckerberg managed to manipulate whole communities with the use of weaponized algorithms.
For deploying a novel weapon against multiple countries, including the USA, neither he, nor his various associates, has ever served jail time.
Yes, we remember.
#SocialMedia #InformationOperations
#AbLeg #AbPoli #CdnPoli
Zuckerberg et al, responsible for the development and introduction of a novel Information Operation that was the stuff of science fiction. Through his centralized social media products, Zuckerberg managed to manipulate whole communities with the use of weaponized algorithms.
For deploying a novel weapon against multiple countries, including the USA, neither he, nor his various associates, has ever served jail time.
Yes, we remember.
#SocialMedia #InformationOperations
#AbLeg #AbPoli #CdnPoli
Christina LekatiVery good paper from the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence showcasing the use of AI models for targeted persuasion campaigns on social media. The paper is split in interconnected 2 parts:
1)
Research focusing on real use cases of AI-Generated persuasion campaigns in the German and Russian languages (AI-generated text in less common languages has been more difficult to detect by current AI detection tools).
The use cases include politically oriented content in German, pro-Kremlin messages, conspiracy theories aiming to cause unrest, and disinformation.
2) (most interesting!)
A red team experiment that looks into an adversary’s potential decision making when it comes to crafting, coordinating and launching a precision persuasion campaign.
The researchers used AI models to:
🔹 Define the "right" target profiles based on topics of interest.
🔹 Identify their demonstrated sentiment & behavioral tendencies (based on a clustered analysis of their posts) on those topics of interest.
🔹 Perform psychometric, behavioral, and opinion-based analysis in order to segment those social media accounts into different groups.
The goal of this segmentation was to dig deeper into discovering certain traits about users that would be used in tailoring the targeting content in accordance with those psychometric characteristics.
🔹 Frame and phrase the message (the content) based on the user profile and the analysis performed in the previous steps, with the help of generative AI.
The results of the output - the "tailored" messages - are very interesting.
Keep in mind that this is the reality that we will be called to face in the near future. A higher scale of well-tailored information & influence campaigns that will not only come accross our own social media profiles, but also the ones of everyday people that may NOT possess the level of awareness that you potentially do, but still have a vote to cast on important topics.
In any case, this is a highly recommended read.
The annex includes some of the prompts along with other interesting details. Enjoy!
Link:
#disinformation #influenceoperations #socialengineering #informationoperations #artificialintelligence #AI
Nonya Bidniss 🥥🌴Justice Department Disrupts Covert Russian Government-Sponsored Foreign Malign Influence Operation Targeting Audiences in the United States and Elsewhere
Folks, take a look at this and MAKE SURE YOU OPEN THE 3 EXHIBITS that DOJ has linked within the text. These are actual Russian disinfo strategy documents translated into English. #disinformation #ElectionInterference #Russia #InformationOperations
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-disrupts-covert-russian-government-sponsored-foreign-malign-influence
Justice Department Disrupts Covert Russian Government-Sponsored Foreign Malign Influence Operation Targeting Audiences in the United States and Elsewhere
The Justice Department today announced the ongoing seizure of 32 internet domains used in Russian government-directed foreign malign influence campaigns colloquially referred to as “Doppelganger,” in violation of U.S. money laundering and criminal trademark laws. As alleged in an unsealed affidavit, the Russian companies Social Design Agency (SDA), Structura National Technology
Sami LehtinenSurprisingly nice article, in Finnish about: #Finland #Russia #HybridCoE #psyops #informationoperations #hybridwar
https://www.verkkouutiset.fi/a/nain-venaja-onnistui-vaikuttamaan-suomeen-muutuimme-yhdessa-yossa-vihamieliseksi-valtioksi/
https://www.verkkouutiset.fi/a/nain-venaja-onnistui-vaikuttamaan-suomeen-muutuimme-yhdessa-yossa-vihamieliseksi-valtioksi/
nadin brzezinskiOk, todays piece addresses #informationoperations and #wagner
https://nadinbrzezinski.medium.com/zaporizhia-npp-and-wagner-bb9ee0d6358c
More #Russian #InformationOperations. Short 🧵👇
Dmitry Medvedev:
I will note one thing that politicians of all stripes do not like to admit: a nuclear Apocalypse is not only possible, but also quite likely. Why?
There are at least two reasons.
Tabea WilkeDocuments from a Russian IT contractor give insights into the methodology and tools to develop, manage, and execute information operations.
https://www.mandiant.com/resources/blog/cyber-operations-russian-vulkan
They include 2 frameworks with information on how to scan and collect data at scale, how to structure databases for it, how to store and organize data for information confrontation and psychological operations and a training platform for exercising coordinated IO/OT attacks.
I'm glad to see documentation of a strategy we tried to raise awareness of back in 2018 in Europe: The sophisticated combination of IO and "classic" cyber attacks.
Mott"Interval-censored Transformer Hawkes: Detecting Information
Operations using the Reaction of Social System"
E RosalieIt absolutely never fails. These are the same people.
#disinformation #mediamanipulation #propaganda #autocracy #informationoperations #medialiteracy #infosec #scicomm #mems #NAFO #ukraine
