🇨🇳 Are Chinese Operatives Using AI For US Voter Disinformation?

& Google Requires Disclosure of AI Usage for Political Adverts

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Mia W.
September 07, 2023

Today’s AI Rundown Includes:

 📈 What’s Hot:  Are Chinese Operatives Using AI For US Voter Disinformation?

 💡 Must Know: Emerald Castle With Midjourney

 🧠 News Today: Google Requires Disclosure of AI Usage for Political Adverts

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On this Day In Tech…

September 7, 2005: Apple Introduced iPod Nano

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CHINESE OPERATIVES MAY BE USING AI TO DISINFORM US VOTERS, MICROSOFT SAYS

Example of an AI-generated image posted by a suspected Chinese IO asset, shared in a Microsoft Threat Intelligence report

The Jinx Of It: Microsoft Analysts said that over the past nine months, Chinese Operatives have shared AI-generated images on social media, as part of a campaign aimed at "disparaging U.S. political figures and symbols”

🔑 Key Takeaways:

  • Their disinformation campaign includes sharing fabricated AI images depicting symbols like the Statue of Liberty and the Black Lives Matter

  • The AI images have drawn more attention from actual users than previous similar attempts according to Microsoft, but at the moment we do not have any metrics on this

  • More evidence of Chinese Influence operations aimed at showing discord in the US have emerged in recent months

Why Should You Care? The utilization of technology for political purposes by governments is not a secret at all. But with the emergence of AI, we are likely to witness an unprecedented level of influence. We can expect for the AI driven disinformation campaigns become more sophisticated and even harder to detect.

MidJourney Prompt To Try

I absolutely love castles, especially after playing Elden Ring and love using Midjourney to create castles to stare at. Here is one of them. Don’t you wish it was fully playable in a video game? 😋 

Prompt: /imagine a big tall emerald castle with a beautiful night sky, hyper realistic, --ar 2:1

Google to Require a Disclosure of AI Usage for Political Adverts

Google will require political ads on its platforms to disclose when they use AI to create images and audio, in response to the increasing use of tools that generate AI content.

Starting in November, political ads will need to prominently indicate if they contain "synthetic content" that portrays real or realistic-looking people or events.

Google is taking steps to ensure that digitally altered content is clearly disclosed in political advertising. The company continues to invest in technology to detect and remove such content.

Microsoft announces new Copilot Copyright Commitment for its users

Microsoft is addressing concerns regarding potential copyright infringement claims associated with its AI-powered Copilots.

To reassure customers, the company has introduced the Copilot Copyright Commitment.

Under this commitment, Microsoft will assume responsibility for legal risks if a third party files a copyright infringement lawsuit against a commercial customer using Copilots or their generated output.

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