Federal intelligence officials warned Monday that propagandists in China, Iran, and Russia are increasingly using artificial intelligence to create deceptive content aimed at influencing the upcoming US presidential election. While AI has made it easier to generate disinformation, officials emphasized that it hasn't fundamentally changed the tactics of these actors.
Propagandists in China , Iran and Russia are using artificial intelligence to create content designed to deceive Americans ahead of the November presidential election, federal intelligence officials said Monday. In a conference call about foreign election interference efforts organized by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, officials said the U.S.
official, referring to the U.S. intelligence community. The official requested not to be named as a condition for participating in the call. “Thus far, the IC has not seen it revolutionize such operations,” he said. In its assessment of the impact of disinformation, the official noted that U.S. adversaries struggle to avoid detection by Western AI companies, have not developed particularly advanced AI models of their own, and struggle to effectively disseminate AI-generated content.
declined to provide specific examples of the disinformation that it was referring to but said that, in general, the number of election interference efforts was increasing ahead of November. The call comes after the National Security Agency said earlier this year it had detected hackers and propagandists increasingly using AI to help them seem like convincing English speakers. In January, an NSA official said hackers and propagandists around the world were increasingly using generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT when trying to communicate with potential victims.
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