A report from the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center claims the Chinese Communist Party has been conducting covert social media content operations using AI to generate the targeted content. The operations target both sides of America’s main political divides, sowing discord and spreading misinformation.
Clint Watts, the center’s general manager, stated, “We have observed China-affiliated actors leveraging AI-generated visual media in a broad campaign that largely focuses on politically divisive topics, such as gun violence, and denigrating U.S. political figures and symbols,”
From the report, “Unlike earlier (influence operation) campaigns from CCP-affiliated actors that used easy-to-spot computer-generated handles, display names and profile pictures, these more sophisticated accounts are operated by real people who employ fictitious or stolen identities to conceal the accounts’ affiliation with the CCP.”
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