Humans are already great at generating propaganda and lies, in written and spoken speech form. at scale. coordinated.
and almost all of it "goes into the can" and becomes static propaganda artifacts which can and are redelivered and re-consumed over and over again, by the target audiences, and at near zero hosting cost. no AI/LLMs needed
(Disclaimer/credentials: I've worked for the US State Department on a closely related
& overlapping problem in this space.)
I do feel that the increasing realism of trained NN-generated photos and video, intended to smear an opposing political candidate, is the biggest "new" threat. I had expected it to be deployed by Trump/GOP/Putin against Biden/Dems in the 2020 election, as an "October surprise." Shocked it was not, not really (IIRC).
I do expect they'll deploy it in the 2024 race. Especially in the closing weeks/days (Oct surprise), in order to gain biggest (however small it all adds up) sentiment shift with smallest possible time window for fact-finding efforts to debunk it.
As villains they'd be almost comically incompetent if they did not try anyway.
and almost all of it "goes into the can" and becomes static propaganda artifacts which can and are redelivered and re-consumed over and over again, by the target audiences, and at near zero hosting cost. no AI/LLMs needed
(Disclaimer/credentials: I've worked for the US State Department on a closely related & overlapping problem in this space.)
I do feel that the increasing realism of trained NN-generated photos and video, intended to smear an opposing political candidate, is the biggest "new" threat. I had expected it to be deployed by Trump/GOP/Putin against Biden/Dems in the 2020 election, as an "October surprise." Shocked it was not, not really (IIRC).
I do expect they'll deploy it in the 2024 race. Especially in the closing weeks/days (Oct surprise), in order to gain biggest (however small it all adds up) sentiment shift with smallest possible time window for fact-finding efforts to debunk it.
As villains they'd be almost comically incompetent if they did not try anyway.