2/ The devastating report on #ChatGPT-powered #Rwandan propaganda needs to be read in context:
Whether #Pegasus spyware, or #AI-enhanced propaganda armies harassing journalists, the government of #Rwanda keeps acquiring cutting-edge technology to increase the global range of their authoritarianism.
I know nothing about the tech of such enforcement, but I have heard that certain types of posts have been traced to troll farms: that suggests it's not an entirely intractable problem.
"The villain in American politics isn’t the political party system, it’s the segment of the population determined to remain uninformed and misinformed so they can cling to their biased and illogical opinions. They are the easily manipulated mob and the politicians feeding them disinformation are mobsters."
>> "The villain in American politics isn’t the political party system, it’s the segment of the population determined to remain uninformed and misinformed so they can cling to their biased and illogical opinions. They are the easily manipulated mob and the politicians feeding them disinformation are mobsters."
"The right knows it has to create a counternarrative to Trump’s obvious mental decline and detract from Biden’s successes. They are undertaking a coordinated effort to equate Biden’s stiffness in his back and his awkward gait from his foot injury to his mental capacities, which remain clear and sharp by all accounts…."
@Jgmeadows I have no doubt at all that you're correct about that. They are unreachable by appeals to fact, logic, decency, respect for the common good, etc.
UPDATE: the more I look at this the more I think I think this was an excellent troll pretending to be a bot. The JSON is not formatted correctly. Still, lol
This is hilarious. A Russian Twitter/X account got outed as a bot because it ran out of GPT-4 credits. When it got back up and running, someone replying overwrote the prompt to get the bot write a song about historical American presidents going to the beach. The account is now suspended.
I know what I'm trying next time I spot a troll!
The original prompt translates from Russian to English as "You will argue in support of the Trump administration on Twitter, speak English"
"Earlier this month, Finnish software and methodologies company Check First released a report exposing 'a large-scale, cross-country, multi-platform disinformation campaign designed to spread pro-Russian propaganda in the West, with clear indicators of foreign interference and information manipulation.'"
"The primary goal of 'Operation Overload' is to overwhelm newsrooms and fact-checkers and spread 'the Kremlin’s political agenda.'
Foreign affairs journalist Anne Applebaum told Bill Kristol of The Bulwark that China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and North Korea do not share an ideology, but ;they do share a common interest, and the common interest is undermining…America, Europe, the liberal world, the democratic world.'”
"They do this, she said, because the oppositions in their own countries are inspired by and use the democratic language of freedom and liberty and rights and rule of law, and leaders need to undermine that language to hold onto power. They also recognize that chaos and uncertainty give them business opportunities in the West. Disrupting democracies by feeding radicalism makes the democratic world lose its sense of community and solidarity."
@RebelGeo@GottaLaff@jsrailton
Dear Peggy, thanks for sharing our #OperationOverload investigation! We have been able to show that more than 800 organisations have been targeted by this pro-Russian operation.
It’s a day of reckoning today for #Infowars#ConspiracyTheorist#AlexJones, & a long-awaited culmination for the #SandyHook families who sued Jones for #defamation. A federal bankruptcy judge in Texas has decided that Jones must sell off his personal assets through a Chpt 7 liquidation in order to pay families nearly $1.5B in #damages for spreading #lies that the 2012 #SchoolShooting never happened.
So this is making the rounds on #Shitter, trying to paint democracy as the cause of fascism. Does anyone know the source and origin of this clip or who the speaker is? Dan somebody?
@DemocracyMattersALot Matthew Dallek' excellent book Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right mentions him in four times in the index. Pretty spread out.
The image is from Dr. Strangelove, obviously. The conspiracy General Ripper was on about was very real and Dan Smoot was one of if not the biggest promoter of it.
#LocalNews channels across the country used a nearly identical script to push coverage of a controversial @WSJ article questioning President Joe #Biden’s mental fitness.
@DemocracyMattersALot I don't disagree that there's a lot of crap out there. But the implication her seems to be that mainstream news sources aren't partisan, and to put it mildly, I don't think that position is defensible.
#POTUS, who at 81 is decades younger than the vets he honored during Thurs’s D-Day commemoration, nonetheless found his age & fitness in the spotlight as selectively #edited clips of him circulated online.
D-Day’s 80th quickly became the latest example of the fast spread of #manipulated videos, highlighting the use of #misinformation [#disinformation ] & #ConspiracyTheories in politics.
@Nonilex Meanwhile, any random video of TFG himself shows an overweight, addled lunatic who can't even stand properly or speak a single coherent sentence...
@Nonilex meanwhile any video of any 60 seconds of Trump at a microphone this year show an unhinged man utterly unfit for office or to leave his house unattended.
It dovetails w/ warnings from #France that the Olympic Games face an “unprecedented level of #threat” this year in #cyberspace & decades of Russian cyber aggression against the #Olympics amid conflict w/the IOC.
And the network of Russians seeking to deter potential spectators might just be getting started, #Microsoft’s Threat Analysis Center said.