Firm names Russia as top source of such activity but says it is ‘striking’ how little AI was used to try to trick voters
  • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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    17 hours ago

    This whole article is full of double speak.

    TL;DR:

    • Just as we all guessed, Russia is paying for disinformation campaigns on Meta.
    • Unexpectedly, Meta is doing even the bare minimum to stop them, rather than just happily taking the money.
    • Completely expectedly China and Iran are doing the same.
    • Somewhat unexpectedly, deep fake AI imagery isn’t being used much. (My commentary - because the result still sucks, at least when using cheap labor.)
    • Completely expectedly, Russia has a huge farm of fake websites with AI generated text to push their agenda.

    After parsing all that, yes, this is still a big deal. Meta’s person in charge of conbating it, minimizing it, isn’t a good look.