Beijing did a test run in Taiwan using AI-generated content to influence voters away from a pro-sovereignty candidate
China will attempt to disrupt elections in the US, South Korea and India this year with artificial intelligence-generated content after making a dry run with the presidential poll in Taiwan, Microsoft has warned.
The US tech firm said it expected Chinese state-backed cyber groups to target high-profile elections in 2024, with North Korea also involved, according to a report by the company’s threat intelligence team published on Friday.
“As populations in India, South Korea and the United States head to the polls, we are likely to see Chinese cyber and influence actors, and to some extent North Korean cyber actors, work toward targeting these elections,” the report reads.
Microsoft said that “at a minimum” China will create and distribute through social media AI-generated content that “benefits their positions in these high-profile elections”.
“We know because we helped them build the ai.”
“Well, you see, it all started while we were meeting to discuss how to remove the tiananmen square massacre from our search results…”
I mean, you’ve all heard of the tank man massacre?
But have you heard of the rubber ducky man massacre?
(Just a little quick backstory, that was a photoshop to get past the censorship in China.)
We saw that shit here in Taiwan. Fake AI content that was circulating Line messenger and TikTok.
TikTok
TikTok seems so innocent but people do not understand how nefariously TikTok can be used. Most folks are are defenseless targets because they are not attuned to how psyops has been successfully used against them already.
It’s super targeted. I really wish they would ban it here like they are trying in the US.
It’s super targeted.
Exactly, and that’s also why it’s so effective. You can say whatever lies you like if you only say them to the people who will lap it up, there’s and no chance for anyone else to correct them as they don’t even hear the lie.
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It’s a lot harder to add context with only 60 seconds of video. Stripping context is one of the easiest ways to flip a narrative. There are things unique to the TikTok format that are uniquely dangerous.
“The Chinese oligarchs are taking over!” - US oligarchs probably
Billionaires will completely control elections with or without AI.
There are a lot of Americans who think they understand China really well, but I’m not sure they do.
AI? Pfft. Real manly men who ride bears with no shirt on know how to disrupt elections all by themselves. With their own two oligarchs!
