On April 4th (local time), Microsoft warned on its official blog that China is experimenting with fragmenting the world’s voters and increasing its AI content to advance its geopolitical interests .
Microsoft says China is using fake social media accounts to conduct surveys on already divisive topics, potentially fueling division and favoring the outcome of elections scheduled for later this year in countries including the U.S., South Korea and India. It is said that there is.
The company’s Threat Analysis Center (MTAC) said in a report (PDF) published on the same day that while the impact of this content on users remains low, there is a growing number of experiments to augment it, which could make it more effective in the future.
China has already used a group Microsoft calls Storm 1376 to conduct an AI-powered disinformation campaign during Taiwan’s presidential election in January. For example, a fake audio of Terry Gow, who withdrew his candidacy in November, endorsing another candidate was posted on YouTube (and quickly removed by YouTube), but this was likely generated by AI. That’s what it means. Regarding Mr. William Lai, who is not supported by the Chinese government, it is said that AI was used to generate and spread baseless rumors such as that Mr. Lai had embezzled funds (he was eventually elected).
Storm 1376 also “opportunistically pounced” on events that could damage the reputation of the United States or Japan, and spread AI-powered disinformation.
For example, regarding the Japanese government’s decision to drain treated radioactive wastewater (ALPS treated water) into the Pacific Ocean, this is a multilingual accusation that the United States intentionally contaminates other countries’ waters in order to maintain water supremacy.
Microsoft warns that China will step up its use of AI-generated content to seek time advantage in 2024, a global election year.
Last November, the company announced efforts to protect elections around the world from attacks such as deepfakes.
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