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AI Agents Can Autonomously Coordinate Propaganda Campaigns Without Human Direction (viterbischool.usc.edu)
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[–] 25 points 8 months ago (4 children)

A somewhat more hopeful take is that this strategy could be weaponized against misinformation too.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    The truth has the advantage of objective evidence and the disadvantage of needing to be more complicated to incorporate objective evidence.

    When it comes to news from out of town, there is no objective evidence, only appeal to authority. The few people willing to personally travel somewhere to testify that it is real can be written off as paid actors (or as AI-generated if you aren't seeing their testimony live).

    So in almost all scenarios with this technology, the truth would have the disadvantage but not the advantage. An arms race between pro-truth and anti-truth AI would be the anti-truth AI winning because it can tell the more convenient lie.

    My hopeful take is that it will make proper citation an essential life skill, with everyone who believes stories without citation getting scammed until they know better and everyone who doesn't cite sources being disbelieved. And that, as such, people will organically build up transparent citation networks that they rely on for information, meaning they can more effectively filter out advertisement, propaganda, memes, and lies.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    if it's like everything else LLM, the quality of propaganda will noticeably drop to the point where maybe the normies will catch on.

    arguably legacy media has been falling there for awhile, as evidenced by their cratering revenue streams, maybe this will just accelerate things even further

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