China, Iran, Israeli Groups Weaponize AI for First-of-Their-Kind Social Media Influence Campaigns
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Chinese Bot Network Used Fake Cartoons and AI to Influence the Data Center Debate
X said its safety team identified approximately 200,000 inauthentic Chinese accounts involved in online “influence operations,” with about 200 accounts posting in ways the platform said could manipulate legitimate debate over U.S. artificial intelligence and energy policy. The accounts promoted messages opposing AI and the data centers needed to support it. According to X, posts […]
China, Iran, Israeli groups weaponize AI for first-of-their-kind social media influence campaigns
An investigation by The New York Times reveals how groups in China, Iran, and Israel leveraged open-source AI to unleash thousands of autonomous bots on social media.
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim A-ram = State forces from Iran and China and Israeli companies carried out autonomous public opinion manipulation using artificial intelligence (AI) on social media...
A New York Times investigation revealed that artificial intelligence agents created and operated thousands of fake social media accounts, with the Iranian network posing as American citizens. Israeli company IntelEye confirmed that it used DeepSeek, but claimed: "This is defensive research, we do not run influence campaigns."
Rome, 18 sets. (askanews) . In recent months, Iran, China and groups in Israel have used artificial intelligence in innovative ways to create campaigns of influence on social media, the first of their kind, increasing concerns between US officials and security researchers about this rapidly evolving technology. [...]
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