TechLetters #191 Preorders of PROPAGANDA started. US/Canada point fingers at RT Today for propaganda/cyberattacks. Cars recording conversations. Modifying/correcting human beliefs using AI/LLM
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Security
The US imposed sanctions on RT Today. They have changed their profile from a media agency to information operations, propaganda (pays influencers and social media people in various countries), covert influence operations and active cyber operations, including intelligence.
Privacy
Cars with recording always-on. Ford seeks a patent for a device always listening in a car - to people's conversations, first to serve them ads. This system has no privacy designed in it. "historical knowledge of the user’s behavior ...routes taken, or frequently visited destinations ... A level of passenger-driver interaction (acoustic information) may be assessed to determine the level of engagement, such as through conversations..."
Technology Policy
Meta/Facebook will train AI models on (public) Facebook/Instagram data in the UK. Users will be given the option to express an objection.
Other
Entrenched beliefs maybe aren’t so entrenched! Scientists checked if using AI Chatbots may correct conspiratorial theorist thinking. Personalized dialogues with GPT-4 reduced belief in conspiracy theories by 21.43%, with durable effects. AI could be a powerful tool for combating misinformation. It worked regardless if the AI assistant was polite or not. Tested concepts: assassination of John F. Kennedy, aliens, the illuminati, those about COVID-19 and the 2020 US presidential elections.
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