This nuke-the-web plan “raises strong ethical concerns.”
, a website that lets you interact with chatbots that mimic countless real people and fictional characters. The site launched last summer and for the moment leans heavily on entertainment uses — offering carousels of conversations with anime stars, video game characters, and the My Little Pony universe. But there are hints of more serious business, with bots that will instruct you in new languages, help you with creative writing projects, and teach you history.
The emergence of global-scale social networks during the past decade offered state actors a rich new canvas on which they could attempt to shape public opinion. Most famously, Russia used its troll army to create thousands of fake Americans on Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms and pit them against real ones in an effort to swing the 2016 election to Donald Trump. There’s a real debate about how effective that campaign — and influence operations in general — really are.
Influence operations can take many shapes; most such operations are conducted by governments on their own citizens. Typically they seek to deflect criticism and cast the ruling party in a positive light; they can also advocate for or against policies, or attempt to shift opinion about allies or rivals. Other times, as in the Russia case, influence operations seek to destabilize adversaries.
All of these solutions come with important tradeoffs, which the authors detail. The paper runs to 71 pages and is worth reading in full for anyone with an interest in AI or platform integrity.But I want to highlight two proposed solutions to the next generation of influence operations: one because it’s so straightforward and necessary; the other because it kind of blew my mind.
If I worked on platform integrity, I’d start a working group to begin talking about these questions now.
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