Facebook removed two networks of fake accounts spreading government propaganda on the platform Tuesday, one originating in China and one in the Philippines.
In its latest report on this kind of coordinated campaign, the company says it took down 155 Facebook accounts, 11 pages, nine groups and seven Instagram accounts connected to the Chinese activity and 57 accounts, 31 Pages and 20 Instagram accounts for the activity in the Philippines. Both operations broke Facebook’s rules against “coordinated inauthentic behavior on behalf of a foreign or government entity.” Read More
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The Supply of Disinformation Will Soon Be Infinite
Disinformation campaigns used to require a lot of human effort, but artificial intelligence will take them to a whole new level.
Someday soon, the reading public will miss the days when a bit of detective work could identify completely fictitious authors. Consider the case of “Alice Donovan.” In 2016, a freelance writer by that name emailed the editors of CounterPunch, a left-leaning independent media site, to pitch a story. Her Twitter profile identified her as a journalist. Over a period of 18 months, Donovan pitched CounterPunch regularly; the publication accepted a handful of her pieces, and a collection of left-leaning sites accepted others.
Then, in 2018, the editor of CounterPunch received a phone call from The Washington Post. A reporter there had obtained an FBI report suggesting that Alice Donovan was a “persona account”—a fictitious figure—created by the Main Directorate, the Russian military-intelligence agency commonly known as the GU. Read More
Twenty Thousand Hertz #102 | Deepfake Dallas
Using artificial intelligence, someone can make an algorithm that sounds just like you. And then they can say… whatever they want you to say. We’re entering a brand new era: One where you can no longer trust your ears. Welcome to the world of audio deepfakes. Featuring deepfake wizard Tim McSmythurs, cybersecurity expert Riana Pfefferkorn and a brand-new host: Deepfake Dallas. Read More
Will Machine Learning Supercharge Online Disinformation?
Once heralded as vehicles for promoting democratic values abroad, social media platforms now serve as vectors for homegrown and foreign disinformation. By dictating the information consumed by hundreds of millions of Americans, the machine learning (ML) algorithms employed by these platforms are an integral part of the spread of disinformation. Moreover, by improving and automating the generation and targeting of disinformation, emerging ML capabilities have the potential to significantly enhance the effectiveness of disinformation campaigns.
This brief summarizes the results of a recent analysis that critically evaluates how ML tools could affect the creation, spread, and effectiveness of disinformation. Read More
Trends in Online Influence Efforts
Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) create novel opportunities for a wide range of political actors. Foreign governments have used social media to influence politics in a range of countries by promoting propaganda, advocating controversial viewpoints, and spreading disinformation. This report updates previous work with data on 76 such foreign influence efforts (FIE) targeting 30 different countries from 2013 through 2019, as well as 20 domestic influence efforts (DIE)in which governments targeted their own citizens. Influence efforts (IEs) are defined as: (i) coordinated campaigns by a state or the ruling party in an autocracy to impact one or more specific aspects of politics at home or in another state, (ii)through media channels, including social media, by (iii) producing content designed to appear indigenous to the target state. The objective of such campaigns can be quite broad and to date have included shaping election outcomes at various levels,shifting the political agenda on topics ranging from health to security, and encouraging political polarization. Our data draw on more than 920 media reports and380 research articles/reports to identify IEs, track their progress, and classify their features. Read More
Memers are making deepfakes, and things are getting weird.
Grace Windheim had heard of deepfakes before. But she had never considered how to make one. It was a viral meme using the technology that led her to research the possibility—and discover that it was super easy and completely free.
Within a day, she had created a step-by-step YouTube tutorial to walk others through the process. “Making one of these deepfakes and overlaying audio is not as complicated as you may think,” she says in the video, published on August 4. It has since been viewed over 360,000 times. Read More
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Neo Takes The Blue Pill [DeepFake]
A Berkeley computer science student used GPT-3 to generate a No. 1 blog entry
Liam Porr collaborated with a Berkeley Ph.D. student to use GPT-3 to generate completed posts for the Adolos blog. A post titled “Feeling unproductive? Maybe you should stop overthinking” reached No. 1 on Hacker News. Porr retired the blog after two weeks with a final, cryptic post titled “What I would do with GPT-3 if I had no ethics” Read More
#fake, #nlpNew AI Dupes Humans into Believing Synthesized Sound Effects Are Real
Using machine-learning, AutoFoley determines what actions are taking place in a video clip and creates realistic sound effects.
… Researchers have created an automated program that analyzes the movement in video frames and creates its own artificial sound effects to match the scene. In a survey, the majority of people polled indicated that they believed the fake sound effects were real. The model, AutoFoley, is described in a study published June 25 in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. Read More
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