The CIA probably realizes it doesn't need to fund rebel groups [1] or use local journalists/clergy [2] to instigate a regime change these days - they can just flood a target country's social media with AI-generated propaganda. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair 2. https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hear...
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#32The CIA probably realizes it doesn't need to fund rebel groups [1] or use local journalists/clergy [2] to instigate a regime change these days - they can just flood a target country's social media with AI-generated propaganda. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair 2. https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hear...
I would wager a whole lot of money that the CIA is very much on top of this one.
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#33The CIA probably realizes it doesn't need to fund rebel groups [1] or use local journalists/clergy [2] to instigate a regime change these days - they can just flood a target country's social media with AI-generated propaganda. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair 2. https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hear...
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#35This is the sort of thing that becomes possible after dropping the ethical members of their board.
I wonder how the OpenAI employees feel about this after their full throated support for reinstating Altman and the shuffling of the previous board.
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#36The CIA probably realizes it doesn't need to fund rebel groups [1] or use local journalists/clergy [2] to instigate a regime change these days - they can just flood a target country's social media with AI-generated propaganda. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair 2. https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hear...
I sure hope so, Russia has 100% been doing it, with multiple documented „botfarms” (more like fake identity verification farms)
Re: OpenAI drops ban on military tools to partner with The Pentagon
#37As a liberal raised during the backlash to the Iraq War, my attitude towards the Military Industrial Complex has really changed in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s seemingly inevitable invasion of Taiwan. Add in the possibility that the US could be dragged into new wars in the Middle East and even possibly South America, and I really don’t think we have the luxury to say “weapons bad, let’s n…
Re: OpenAI drops ban on military tools to partner with The Pentagon
#38This is the sort of thing that becomes possible after dropping the ethical members of their board.
I wonder how the OpenAI employees feel about this after their full throated support for reinstating Altman and the shuffling of the previous board.
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#39The CIA probably realizes it doesn't need to fund rebel groups [1] or use local journalists/clergy [2] to instigate a regime change these days - they can just flood a target country's social media with AI-generated propaganda. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair 2. https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hear...
I sure hope so, Russia has 100% been doing it, with multiple documented „botfarms” (more like fake identity verification farms)
Re: OpenAI drops ban on military tools to partner with The Pentagon
#40Important to know: > Anna Makanju, the company’s vice president of global affairs ... added that it will retain its ban on developing weapons
Assume that the parenthetical "(... for now)" is implied in all such promises.