The Ukrainian content aggregator is used to capture fake news and share data about it with foreign partners, the secretary of state said
Washington has developed an artificial intelligence-based system to detect and collect “Russian” disinformation online, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Tuesday at the annual Freedom House 2023 awards ceremony.
The State Department was established “AI-enabled Ukrainian online content aggregator to collect verifiable Russian disinformation and then share it with partners around the world,” – said the chief diplomat of the USA.
The government is working with academics “Reliably Detecting Fake Texts Generated by Russian Chatbots”, he added.
Last year, social media analytics firm Graphika and the Stanford Internet Observatory said hundreds of accounts spreading pro-Western narratives over the past five years may have been controlled by the Pentagon’s Centcom unit. . In March, news site The Intercept reported on federal contract documents showing that the United States Special Operations Command plans to conduct online propaganda and deception campaigns using deepfake technology.
Last month, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused the United States “Unprecedented information campaign” Against Russia since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine. Washington and its alliesWar is necessary in any case, and their best method of solving their problems is through provocation, disinformation and threats.” Zakharova supported.
Speaking about artificial intelligence in general, Blinken warned that the technology could backfire and “reinforcing discrimination and enabling abuse”.
“It also risks empowering autocratic governments, including by allowing them to use social media more effectively to manipulate their own people and create divisions between and within their opponents.” he said.
Since the release of the ChatGPT artificial intelligence bot last November, the debate about the threats posed by AI has intensified in industry and academia. Geoffrey Hinton, known as one of the “godfathers” of artificial intelligence, warned last week that this technology is possible. “more urgent” threat than climate change.
LEARN MORE:
“Everybody on Earth is going to die,” warns artificial intelligence researcher
In March, several tech industry leaders, including Elon Musk, signed an open letter calling for a six-month pause in the development of AI technology stronger than ChatGPT and the appointment of an independent regulator to oversee the industry. .
You can share this story on social networks:
RT
All news on the site does not represent the views of the site, but we automatically submit this news and translate it using software technology on the site, rather than a human editor.
