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   Robert W. Gehl (rwg@aoir.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 00:36:01 JST Robert W. Gehl

   • Sean Lawson :verified: :verified: :verified:

   NYTimes reporting about an #Israel influence operation, using fake X accounts with #ChatGPT-powered talking points, to influence US legislators, public opinion:

   https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/technology/israel-campaign-gaza-social-media.html

   [sorry, it's paywalled]

   @seanlawson and I are publishing articles about this exact sort of masspersonal #socialEngineering right now. It's only going to get worse.

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     Robert W. Gehl (rwg@aoir.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 02:33:32 JST Robert W. Gehl

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     • Sean Lawson :verified: :verified: :verified:

     @seanlawson I think the best mitigation for us on the #fediverse is to remain small -- that is, have many, many small instances where people are more likely to know one another, with application-style registration rather than open registration.

     This is a good argument against federating with large, open, for-profit platforms (I'm looking at you, #Threads).

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     Robert W. Gehl (rwg@aoir.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 02:33:33 JST Robert W. Gehl

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     • Sean Lawson :verified: :verified: :verified:

     @seanlawson We have a short summary of our argument about #ChatGPT/generative AI and its potential uses in political propaganda here:

     https://theconversation.com/chatbots-can-be-used-to-create-manipulative-content-understanding-how-this-works-can-help-address-it-207187

     Basically, we argue things won't be structurally or procedurally different than past #SocialEngineering -- but they will be much more intense.

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     BeAware :fediverse: repeated this.