The Pentagon Wants to Use AI to Create Deepfake Internet Users
The Pentagon Wants to Use AI to Create Deepfake Internet Users
The Department of Defense wants technology so it can fabricate online personas that are indistinguishable from real people.
The plan, mentioned in a new 76-page wish list by the Department of Defense’s Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC, outlines advanced technologies desired for country’s most elite, clandestine military efforts. “Special Operations Forces (SOF) are interested in technologies that can generate convincing online personas for use on social media platforms, social networking sites, and other online content,” the entry reads.
The document specifies that JSOC wants the ability to create online user profiles that “appear to be a unique individual that is recognizable as human but does not exist in the real world,” with each featuring “multiple expressions” and “Government Identification quality photos.”
In addition to still images of faked people, the document notes that “the solution should include facial & background imagery, facial & background video, and audio layers,” and JSOC hopes to be able to generate “selfie video” from these fabricated humans. These videos will feature more than fake people: Each deepfake selfie will come with a matching faked background, “to create a virtual environment undetectable by social media algorithms.”
Can we have a side internet, for us normal people?
No.
/sadface
I think the saving grace of the Internet is in the small holes that arent populated enough for these big actors to care about. If you're influencing a nation, you probably aren't going to inject your AI slop into a tiny proboards or like the forum on Gaia Online.
except gaia is one of the largest forums on earth.
they have more subscribers than Apple TV+
So they want to automate the use of troll-farms?
Dude I can't even pass a catchpa these day. I still don't know if a e-bike is a scooter, a bike, or a moped.
They keep showing me strange street features from distant countries and ask me shit like "mark all the crosswalks". And i look at it and think "no idea, what this is, no crosswalk i have ever seen looked like this, so i guess it it is something different".
And then i have to do the next captcha. Sometimes i am caught in captcha hell, where i have to solve captchas until i give up and close the browser.
Are you jealous of the other bots who can?
Weird how they're doing the thing they accuse others of doing. Almost like it's a confession.
Projection is a major problem
The US always tries to do what they think others are doing. Half of their crazy ideas are because they heard a rumor and/or assumed the Soviets were doing it. Mind control, truth serums, ESP, cat spies.
Dead internet, it will be drowned in bots.
Already is
Already is
Bro I’ve about a dozen I can sell you right now
Jesus, even before I read the article it read like the U.S wants to emulate disinformation campaigns others are using. The irony of three letter agencies condemning AI campaigns while the Pentagon is going "We want that", is insane but its to be expected I guess.
…Do you think the US government has never done disinformation campaigns before?
no, but they pretend otherwise, so them publicly salivating for it is a new level of embarrassing.
Office of Strategic Influence says sup
No. I'm not clueless or surprised. Just disappointed that we're stooping to using AI bots to sow discord like Russia is doing.
I assume this is the same reason why they want to ban TikTok but not Facebook - it's not so much that they object to the data harvesting, they just object to non-American data harvesting that they can't readily influence.
tiktok is cia https://www.mintpressnews.com/nato-tiktok-pipeline-why-tiktok-employing-national-security-agents/280336/
the servers are in the US. douyin is controlled by the CPC
I don't think that's what they want to use it for. Disinformation is super easy. What they want to do is use bots to gather Intel on citizens.
Por que no los dos? They'd definitely use this capability to do both.
The listing notes that special operations troops “will use this capability to gather information from public online forums,” with no further explanation of how these artificial internet users will be used.
Any chance that's the real reason and not just a flimsy excuse? What kind of information would you even need a fake identity to gather from a public forum?
CSAM?
I guess there are probably a lot of people trading that stuff dumb enough to be networking on facebook and instagram with their real identities
.world will double in users again
what does this mean? also why do people hate on .world SO MUCH? it just works
.world is a carbon copy of reddit, and it's full of bootlickers of US empire. Considering massive botfarms on reddit and links of it to US agencies if US is gonna invest in even more bots some of them are bound to end up there.
As if any institution, org or group that has an agenda to push doesn't have battalions of bots guiding the discussion of forums to whichever way they want and not just fake followers and likes. As if people would need permission or would ask for it even if they had to. You just cant have any real sense of the public opinion on the internet, if there ever was such a time.
Dead internet incoming...
So they can save money by firing their army of nafo meat puppets?
I mean they did had IRL meeting probably because even they didn't believed they are real people lol.
I don't get it. They're not already?
it's the pentagon itself, not the CIA or state department. 100% the CIA and state department has been doing it for a long time already
LinkedIn?
Telling on themselves a bit given the implication is that they're so far behind every other country who're definitely already doing the same
definitely
Definitely, given the overwhelming mountain of evidence you’re sitting on 👍 Meanwhile, the US isn’t the largest intelligence/security state in the world by leaps and bounds. It’s just a little-bitty backward country whose military-industrial complex invented the internet.
We are pathetically behind in the cyber warfare sphere, though. Like at this point it's embarrassing, we don't even have the semblance of security education or standards for digital hardening. it's just fucking awful, and we are being obliterated by chinese/russian/anyone else troll farms and hackers because of it. massive data breaches are a weekly occurrence.
Its just... we've got the NSA, sure, and they are good at what they do. But what they do is not what we need. Right now, you can scatter some USB drives outside any gvmt office here and some poor dumb HR rep or whatever will invariably plug it in to their work desktop, and they'll totally fail to understand why it was bad for them to do that.
More likely, they’ve been doing this for many years and it is basically obsolete, so they are spilling the beans now.
Or not and we really are doomed.
My first thought was if they're asking for this officially, they've piloted some version of it unofficially.
Any government does anything shady Oh! I i would not have thought that any government is using my patriotism for their malicious things!
So we really are going for a dead internet. Nobody is going to want to interact with bots all day online. But maybe that's the point, harder to organize organically on the streets without a presence online.
Wow. Hadn't thought about it that way.
Can I still be the one person who makes all the posts on 4chan, prove me wrong?
