Killing Me Softly, Regulating AI-generated Content, Build $105 AI-powered Propaganda Machine
AI Bytes: Volume CI, Issue #24
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‘The machine does it coldly’: Artificial Intelligence can already kill people
The Israeli military is using artificial intelligence to automate the process of selecting and killing suspected enemy combatants.
The AI system, called "Lavender," uses data gathered from automated mass surveillance to assess the likelihood of each person being a member of Hamas's military wing or the militant group Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Subjects who rank highly enough on the system's scale of 1 to 100 are deemed targets for assassination through an automated process.
According to the Irish Times, the system has already identified some 37,000 potential targets.
AI doomers in the tech world worried about the existential threat posed by AI, seem to be ignoring the very real and dangerous ways that AI is already being used today.
Bill would require notification of content generated by artificial intelligence
The measure passed this week in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
The bill would protect consumers from deceptive marketing and scams.
It has passed the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and is now headed to the Senate for consideration.
Content creators who use artificial intelligence with good intentions would be subject to new requirements that could complicate their work.
Complying with the guidelines could incur additional time and resources.
How I Built an AI-Powered, Self-Running Propaganda Machine for $105
It took the Jack Brewster less than 48 hours to create an AI-powered, self-running propaganda machine for just $105.
Jack purchased the AI from a content farm on Fiverr.com and had a developer create a fully automated, AI-generated local news site capable of publishing thousands of articles per day. Jack was able to program the website to autonomously rewrite and publish articles from mainstream news outlets according to specific political preferences, and within a few weeks, they could start earning programmatic ad revenue from their partisan AI content farm. This shows how easy it is to use AI to create deceptive content and how it could be used to influence public opinion.
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Steven Johnson has over 35 years of experience studying software and AI-based tools. He told podcast host David Perell that Large Language Models and human creativity work best in harmony. Johnson explains how AI augments the creative process, by amplifying rather than replacing a writers thinking.
Takeaways
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