{"id":17239,"date":"2024-09-24T17:24:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T14:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/russia-suspected-of-using-ai-to-influence-us-elections\/"},"modified":"2024-09-24T17:24:14","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T14:24:14","slug":"russia-suspected-of-using-ai-to-influence-us-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/russia-suspected-of-using-ai-to-influence-us-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Suspected of Using AI to Influence US Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has generated more AI content to influence the US presidential elections than any other foreign nation, according to a US intelligence official, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/russia-produced-most-ai-content-sway-us-presidential-vote-says-us-intelligence-2024-09-23\/\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The agency reports that Russia is using AI to support Republican candidate Donald Trump and to &#8220;discredit&#8221; Vice President Kamala Harris, including through conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has a better understanding of how US elections work and what objectives to pursue, noted an official from the <span data-descr=\"a US government agency that coordinates the activities of all the country's intelligence services\" class=\"old_tooltip\">Office of the Director of National Intelligence<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The content is disseminated through social media accounts using AI features.<\/p>\n<p>In one instance, &#8220;Russian influencers&#8221; orchestrated a widely publicized video in which a woman claims to have been a victim of a car accident involving Harris. The presidential candidate allegedly fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p>China is also using AI to create content, but it is aimed at shaping the country&#8217;s global perception.<\/p>\n<p>In August, OpenAI <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/iranian-accounts-banned-for-influence-operation-using-chatgpt\">removed a group of Iranian accounts<\/a> for using ChatGPT to create content intended to influence the US presidential elections and other topics.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the startup <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/openai-blocks-state-linked-hackers-from-accessing-chatgpt\">blocked the use<\/a> of its products by cybercriminals linked to various governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has generated more AI content to influence the US presidential elections than any other foreign nation, according to a US intelligence official, reports Reuters. The agency reports that Russia is using AI to support Republican candidate Donald Trump and to &#8220;discredit&#8221; Vice President Kamala Harris, including through conspiracy theories. Russia has a better understanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,1280,27,26],"class_list":["post-17239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-elections","tag-russia","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}