The following report is by the Trends Journal:
Social media has long been a cesspit of breathless rumors, baseless conspiracy theories, and outright lies.
Now artificial intelligence has made it easier than ever to pollute the ether.
In the past, it took a level of technical skill to create fake social media profiles, write text in a convincingly conversational way, or doctor photos so they looked realistic and couldn’t be quickly traced to a stock photo file.
No longer.
In recent tests by Denmark’s Copenhagen Business School, a majority of 375 participants couldn’t distinguish with any consistent degree of accuracy between fake Twitter profiles created by ChatGPT-3 or accounts of real people.
In fact, when the profiles began posting arguments taking sides in the Ukraine war, people were more likely to choose the robotically generated profiles and comments as being real.
One human’s profile was called phony by 41.5 percent of test subjects, while one bot-generated profile was correctly identified as such by only 10 percent of participants.
“Five years ago, the average user did not have the technology to create fake profiles at this scale and easiness,” study co-director Raghava Rao Mukkamala said to Science News. “Today, it’s very accessible and available to the many, not just the few.”
Need a phony photo to go with your bot-generated fake news story? Software programs Midjourney and Stable Diffusion are ready to help anyone gin up a news photo to suit.
Recent examples include a series of snapshots of French president Emmanuel Macron in the middle of a recent French street riot over the change in the pension age. Macron, dressed in suit and tie, was facing down protesters amid clouds of smoke.
Then there’s the pair of photos showing Donald Trump sprinting like an Olympian down the street ahead of a pack of uniformed police officers who, in the next photo, are throwing Trump down on the sidewalk.
The Trump and Macron photos were seen and shared on social media thousands of times by people who thought they were real.
With Photoshop, stitching together one of those photos might have taken a skilled user a half-hour. Now, with those new programs and their like, virtually anyone can do it in a few minutes, experts say.
TRENDPOST: Once again, technology has moved far beyond human ability to cope wisely with it.
Some AI experts are urging AI programmers to embed watermarks or other IDs in their code so anything created by an AI will be automatically identified as such.
Until some forms of safeguards are developed and routinely used, assume any message or photo on social media is a lie unless it comes from someone you personally know and trust.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Bots proliferating and populating social media is nothing new, but most people who have encountered them at least once or twice can usually begin to discern if it is a bot or not, normally due to the repetitive and out of context comments. But now the AI is everywhere already and people can hardly discern the difference. Most people cannot even decipher moderate video game graphics anymore from real life because their whole reality is behind a screen!
The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.
Proverbs 14:15
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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yes its like an AI bot take over now a days.
but what makes me laugh is that it’s
mostly obvious and yet most people interact with them.
i get a little giggle when i see it. coz sometimes it looks exactly like these bots are talking to themselves pretending to be different people lol