Posted on 01/26/2023 7:48:27 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The government's campaign to fight "misinformation" has expanded to adapt military-grade artificial intelligence once used to silence the Islamic State (ISIS) to quickly identify and censor American dissent on issues like vaccine safety and election integrity, according to grant documents and cyber experts.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded several million dollars in grants recently to universities and private firms to develop tools eerily similar to those developed in 2011 by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in its Social Media in Strategic Communication (SMISC) program.
DARPA said those tools were used "to help identify misinformation or deception campaigns and counter them with truthful information," beginning with the Arab Spring uprisings in the the Middle East that spawned ISIS over a decade ago.
The initial idea was to track dissidents who were interested in toppling U.S.-friendly regimes or to follow any potentially radical threats by examining political posts on Big Tech platforms.
DARPA set four specific goals for the program:
Mike Benz, executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online has compiled a report detailing how this technology is being developed to manipulate the speech of Americans via the National Science Foundation (NSF) and other organizations.
"One of the most disturbing aspects of the Convergence Accelerator Track F domestic censorship projects is how similar they are to military-grade social media network censorship and monitoring tools developed by the Pentagon for the counterinsurgency and counterterrorism contexts abroad," reads the...
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Don’t for a minute think that every slime ball politician isn’t licking his/her chops over the possible uses of this.
But its not government doing the censorship, its private entities doing the censorship, so that’s ‘ok’. Just forget where the financing is coming from....
Plus its cheaper to have AI do it than pay people to canvass multiple websites to counter ‘misinformation’.
“But its not government doing the censorship”
We are past all of that. It is run and paid for by the Fed Gov.
When Elon Musk bought Twitter, for a short time it was a lot better. The Troll brigade disappeared and the censorship was relaxed.
They are back in full propaganda form again and the filtering is different but it still will not allow content critical of the “official agenda” to be presented.
I can show you this is real. It is happening to me again now. I am convinced it is run outside of Elon’s Twitter.
I guess it’s better than the government launching laser guided mi.... < signal lost>
They also use existing AI chatbots to downvote and overwhelm wrongthink comments with opposing comments to make it look like the wrongthinker is fringe. This will be very common soon.
If you want something scary, ask chat GPT to write a story about a conservative.
Then ask it to write a story about a liberal.
I did. The conservative one basically had the conservative learning that he should be more open minded.
The liberal one had the liberal convincing everyone that liberalism was better, with all the left-wing buzz words issues presented favorably.
The future isn’t looking so friendly.
IIRC, a while back China was paying 50 cents a post for people to troll comment sections (Youtube, news sites, etc) to counter anything critical of China. They would overwhelm the comments sections.
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