Automated Generation of Video Content by Extremists Using Artificial Intelligence: A Case Study from Tech Against Terrorism
According to a new report from the Middle East Media Research Institute, extremists across the US have weaponized artificial intelligence to increase hate speech, recruit new members, and radicalize online supporters.
Video has been the biggest trend we’ve noticed in the next decade. There were very basic AI-generated video content last year. This year, with the release of OpenAI’s Sora, and other video generation or manipulation platforms, we’ve seen extremists using these as a means of producing video content. A lot of people are talking about how this could be used to make feature length films.
Extremists used this technology to create videos featuring a President using racial slurs and an actress reading aloud from a Nazi novel.
Last year, WIRED reported that extremists linked to Hamas and Hezbollah used artificial intelligence to undermine the database that allows Big Tech platforms to quickly remove terrorist content in a coordinated fashion.
Adam Hadley, the executive director of Tech Against Terrorism, claims that he and his colleagues have already created tens of thousands of new images using artificial intelligence.
This technology is being utilized in two ways. generative Artificial Intelligence is being used to create and manage bot that operate fake accounts and it is also being used to generate text, images, and videos through open-sourced tools. Both these uses illustrate the significant risk that terrorist and violent content can be produced and disseminated on a large scale.”
Big Tech Is Giving Campaigns Both the Venom and the Antidote for GenAI: The Biden Campaign’s First Fake Scandal
The Biden campaign is facing its first major cheapfake scandal this week. The clips of Biden being shown wandering off at the G7 Summit have been spread across platforms like X, where they say to show Biden pooping his pants. The clips being edited in a way reminiscent of the drunk Nancy Pelosi video from last cycle are exactly what the right-wing media wants to play up Biden’s age.
Big Tech is training political campaigns on their generative Artificial Intelligence tools, and they are starting to get stressed over simple editing and cropping techniques again. Could a little direction help mitigate the issue? Maybe. Could it make it worse? It’s probably.
In the past 12 years, Microsoft and Google have taught hundreds of campaigns and political groups on how to use artificial intelligence, according to WIRED.
For quite awhile, big tech companies have hosted workshops for political staffers and groups to learn more about their products, especially when it comes to cybersecurity. They’ve begun to teach how campaigns could use artificial intelligence ahead of the 2024 election.
Source: Big Tech Is Giving Campaigns Both the Venom and the Antidote for GenAI
Microsoft High-Energy Trainings: US and European Continuum Servers in the Windows Optical Kernel (XMM-Newton) System
Microsoft said that it completed 90 trainings with more than 2,300 participants in 20 countries, including Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. There have been more than 40 trainings held in the US this year with over 600 participants, the company said. The US trainings began in February, while the European workshops began late last year.