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Disrupting a covert Iranian influence operation

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Re: Disrupting a covert Iranian influence operation

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Post by jjmarr »

colordrops wrote: post #56
ImHereToVote wrote: post #3

I wonder if it would be possible to get a list of countries that can have influence operations using ChatGPT and countries that can't.

I hope they put the same restrictions on Israel but I doubt it. Multiple core OpenAI team members have expressed pro-Israel comments, some very murderous and ugly, so I doubt their ability to be unbiased here.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/meta-openai-say-disrup...

https://openai.com/index/disrupting-deceptive-uses-of-AI-by-...

OpenAI has also banned Israeli influence operations. Do you think the above isn't going far enough?

It's also strange that you call out all pro-Israel comments as a cause for concern.

Re: Disrupting a covert Iranian influence operation

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Post by throwawaycar »

hobo_in_library wrote: post #32
ImHereToVote wrote: post #3

I wonder if it would be possible to get a list of countries that can have influence operations using ChatGPT and countries that can't.

Only countries with dedicated PsyOps divisions are allowed to use ChatGPT for influence operations, obviously https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_operations_(Unit...

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Re: Disrupting a covert Iranian influence operation

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Post by throwawaycar »

hobo_in_library wrote: post #31

It's hard to take an article like this at face value when they provide zero evidence for any of their claims. This is coming soon after Trump decided to accuse Iran of being behind his assassination attempt (done by a white 20 year old) and Israel literally assassinated Hamas's chief negotiator while he was visiting Iran. It seems like the powers that be are desperate for a war with Iran and will continue beating the…

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Re: Disrupting a covert Iranian influence operation

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Post by [deleted] »

programmarchy wrote: post #8

The linked PDF (Storm-2035 [1]) from Microsoft is more detailed and interesting than the blog post. However, what's missing from the reports is how they detected those operations and how they tied them to different groups. There's a lot of claims being made without showing all of the supporting evidence. To give them the benefit of the doubt, they likely want to keep their detection methods secret to make circumventi…

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Re: Disrupting a covert Iranian influence operation

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Post by bunabhucan »

dtquad wrote: post #40
throw310822 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks exceedingly good to be Ai-generated. Also, it appears to be slightly pro-Trump, which doesn't sound like in Iran's interest.

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0.5% of Russian 2016 election interference stuff was "pro" and "anti" vaccination, split roughly 50:50. Neither got retweeted but it was only extreme positions put forward as if division was the only goal.

The goal here could be to sow division or it could be to drive engagement with a view to ultimately pushing a different message (like about Yemen or Israel.)

Re: Disrupting a covert Iranian influence operation

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Post by greatgib »

TOMDM wrote: post #35
greatgib wrote: post #9

What they don't say on their post but that we can guess and is from interest is that they probably had to spy their user messages to determinate that they used the account for generate content for the influence operation. For sure the purpose is noble, but it is good to remind everyone that everything you type, submit or generate there is not private but could be randomly snooped by strangers!

That or they could store hashes of chunks of output to compare to propaganda in the wild.

It would be very costly and nothing say that the bad actor is using the message as-is and not a subset.
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