Posted 1/6/2024, 12:01:07 AM
China Leverages AI to Spread Disinformation and Influence Taiwan’s Election
- China using generative AI to create sophisticated disinformation to influence Taiwan's election, making it harder to identify fake accounts
- Short videos on YouTube and TikTok promoting pro-China narratives, frame China as peacemaker and US as warmonger
- Facebook accounts spreading disinformation, aim to increase distrust of Biden administration
- Fact checking ineffective against generative AI disinformation, best to use AI to identify trends and inform public
- Taiwan AI Labs has experience using AI to detect manipulation from generative AI, should work with allies to combat authoritarian influence