5 stories tagged Disinformation
OpenAI identified and banned Russian accounts using AI to promote a fake Israel-based think tank and a biased 'sovereignty' index. This campaign aimed to sway public opinion by praising Russia and criticizing the West.
Ars Technica tested Google's SynthID watermark and found it robust against removal, but the technology alone cannot stop AI disinformation because it only labels content and doesn't prevent bad actors from using unwatermarked models.
Researchers introduced LENS, a benchmark that tests whether AI models can suppress disinformation-aligned narratives. The study found that current unlearning techniques fail to fully eliminate harmful frames, especially in abstract and contrastive contexts.
A new graph-based AI framework from ArXiv cs.CL detects and analyzes disinformation narratives on Telegram by clustering related claims and modeling their diffusion across channels. The tool targets coordinated misinformation campaigns, particularly in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Foreign actors are using AI-generated videos to spread misleading narratives about the UK's decline. The BBC found these videos are designed to look like real news reports. This is a growing concern as AI tools make it easier to create convincing fake content.