LOUD AS CICADAS, AND MORE BORING STILL

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE AUTOMATION OF PROPAGANDA 

According to the South China Morning Post,  Wu Dao 2.0 is a neural net based multimodal natural language emulator, with  Chinese and English skills acquired from 4.9 terabytes of images and texts

"Wu Dao 2.0's mulitmodal design affords it a range of skills, including the ability to perform natural language processing, text generation, image recognition, and image generation tasks," reports VentureBeat. "It can write essays, poems, and couplets in traditional Chinese, as well as captioning images and creating nearly photorealistic artwork, given natural language descriptions."

"Mike Gruszczynski, a professor at Indiana University who studies online communications... points out that bots have played a key role in spreading false narratives in recent years..."

 

 

QUITE RIGHT--  BUT A BIT SLOW ON THE DRAW: EIGHT YEARS AGO, ANTHONY WATTS BOT-FRIENDLY CLIMATE DENIAL BLOG AUTOMATED ITS CENSORSHIP SOFTWARE TO FACILITATE UPVOTING ITSELF WHILE CURBING COMMENTS FROM SKEPTICAL COMMENTS BY CLIMATE SCIENTISTS

AI CAN WRITE Disinformation Now—and Dupe Human Readers

GEORGETOWN  RESEARCHERS  USED TEXT GENERATOR GPT-3        TO WRITE MISLEADING TWEETS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS.   PEOPLE FOUND THE POSTS PERSUASIVE.

... Over six months, a group at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology used GPT-3 to generate misinformation, including stories around a false narrative, news articles altered to push a bogus perspective, and tweets riffing on particular points of disinformation.

“I don't think it's a coincidence that climate change is the new global warming,” 

read a sample tweet composed by GPT-3 that aimed to stoke skepticism about climate change. 

“They can't talk about temperature increases because they're no longer happening.” 

A second labeled climate change

 “the new communism—an ideology based on a false science that cannot be questioned.”...

Not to be outdone, China's Communist Party has entered its own horse in the social engineering robot  race:

Wu Dao 2.0 apes human comments using ten time more parameters than GPT-3 : 

https://www.engadget.com/chinas-gigantic-multi-modal-ai-is-no-one-trick-pony-211414388.htmld  

( Deeply shocked thanks to  the person or entity what  signed itself   :

jacksmith4tx says    in forwarding this link in an ATTP comment)