In a YouTube video, a voice in English announces that China has researched and developed its own ultra-thin 1-nanometer chip – a staggering claim given that the chip isn’t expected in commercial devices for another decade.

“Recent news from China has sent ripples of excitement and astonishment across the globe,” gushes the voice-over on the China Charged YouTube channel. “This revolutionary breakthrough is more than a technological marvel; it is a game-changer that will redefine the global tech landscape.”

“Prepare to have your mind blown,” says another video, this time on the channel Unbelievable Projects. “Welcome to today’s video, in which we’ll discover why America remains behind China in infrastructure development.”

These voices and their “good news” about China are evidence that the Chinese Communist Party and its overseas proxies are using artificial intelligence to flood YouTube with propaganda videos, according to a new report that describes a “coordinated inauthentic influence campaign” on the platform.

    • @drathvedro@lemm.ee
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      21 year ago

      It’s not. Youtube is full of AI-generated content. Mostly conspiracy bullshit targeted at republicans and other right wingers. But it’s only now when China does it, it makes it to the headlines.

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      everyone has massive propaganda departments if they can afford it

      it’s so so extremely useful for driving political support

      the US even has dedicated “Psychological Operations” divisions in the Army

  • nicetriangle
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    The specifics of this article aside, I am so not looking forward to the continued proliferation of AI based bullshit on the internet/public discourse/the media/etc. It’s gonna get so so much worse, we’re just scratching the surface right now. The validity of any photo or video will be destroyed and nothing will be trustworthy anymore. This is great news for fascists who thrive in a world where the truth is unknowable and meaningless.

    • @daltotron@lemmy.world
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      11 year ago

      It’s just sort of kind of like a slightly more advanced form of spam, or trolling, or really fucked up propaganda/news. The integrity of the ideas and the evidence itself is more what should be evaluated in an argument anyways, rather than the source, and I don’t think like, evidence, generally, like, evidence in general, proof of things in general, is going anywhere anytime soon. I don’t think AI is advanced enough to break encrypted p2p communication, so I don’t really think there’s much of a chance that shit just gets totally wiped off the internet and you start seeing like mass memory hole type shit. It’s more likely that you end up seeing mass disinformation campaigns. You know, like what we’ve had since forever, where you get the population to do it to themselves.

  • @iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world
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    251 year ago

    Culturally there is no real concept of plagiarism or cheating in China. Any shortcut is acceptable, because if you aren’t using it someone else is.

    • @pop@lemmy.ml
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      21 year ago

      Everyone plagiarises until they become powerful enough to influence others to stop or face sanctions.

      Fake it till you make it. Once you make it, call out others plagiarism.

  • magnetosphere
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    Alarming as this may sound, they’re beating a dead horse. Most of the people who would believe this shit uncritically also think Fox “News” is the gospel truth. They’re already lost.

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    I wonder if the AI has caught on to a lot of the abusable mechanics of YT like an upload schedule, opening livestreams or premieres in multiple windows, the upvote/downvote exploit, etc. There is a solid possibility that an AI has better strats than we do.

    • @Bazoogle@lemmy.world
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      81 year ago

      The AI is just being used to create the content itself. The upload process is still just a script. The AI can only adjust parameters set by the person, and the person creating the setup likely isn’t adding in any of the other factors

    • @Evotech@lemmy.world
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      71 year ago

      An actual AI influencer who could control all that would be interesting. What kind of strategies it would make to get the most engagements

      Very Hard to train since I assume you would need real human feedback for each run of course

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        11 year ago

        I think you could just let it push a bunch of buttons and fill in fields at random or with sample data and then score each generation based on user engagement and views, it wouldn’t need that much human feedback during the development phase but the downside would be slightly less control over the content it pushes.

  • @M0oP0o@mander.xyz
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    This made me think of what you can do with AI to poke fun at china, and sadly it seems that microsoft is a bit hard on anti china prompts. But like, life finds a way…

  • ripcord
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    Why is this a sign that they’re using “Artificial Intelligence”? Sounds like they’re just as likely using text-to-speech for planned propaganda. It’s not like they don’t have an ay of people to work on it.

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      Because contemporary tts use ml, a form of ai.

      tl;dr: AI is creating the voices, not the script.

    • @Grimy@lemmy.world
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      51 year ago

      AI hate gets people emotional and leads to more clicks. Couple that with anything to do with China and you end up with a couple bucks of ad money.

  • @yamanii@lemmy.world
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    This is very poor form, at least employ agents like the american 3 letters.

    RFA is a private, nonprofit corporation, funded by the U.S. Congress through the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), an independent federal government agency that oversees all U.S. civilian international media. In addition to providing oversight, the USAGM works with RFA to ensure the professional independence and integrity of its journalism.

  • froggers
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    61 year ago

    What’s next? They landed on the dark side of the sun? North Korea already did that.

    • @M0oP0o@mander.xyz
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      41 year ago

      "The Boy Who Cried Wolf” into Chinese

      Here is what the AI generated image from the bingilator looks like of that… (you know one good turn requires another)

  • @800XL@lemmy.world
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    11 year ago

    Well, China has to steal their tech from some foreign company, why not lie about it before they do.

    Disclaimer: I didnt watch the video but did see the original post in question on Lemmy and was impressed. Now I’ll never believe another pro-China post again. Nice work!