The plan, mentioned in a new 76-page wish list by the Department of Defense’s Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC, outlines advanced technologies desired for country’s most elite, clandestine military efforts. “Special Operations Forces (SOF) are interested in technologies that can generate convincing online personas for use on social media platforms, social networking sites, and other online content,” the entry reads.
The document specifies that JSOC wants the ability to create online user profiles that “appear to be a unique individual that is recognizable as human but does not exist in the real world,” with each featuring “multiple expressions” and “Government Identification quality photos.”
In addition to still images of faked people, the document notes that “the solution should include facial & background imagery, facial & background video, and audio layers,” and JSOC hopes to be able to generate “selfie video” from these fabricated humans. These videos will feature more than fake people: Each deepfake selfie will come with a matching faked background, “to create a virtual environment undetectable by social media algorithms.”
LinkedIn?
Any government does anything shady Oh! I i would not have thought that any government is using my patriotism for their malicious things!
Jesus, even before I read the article it read like the U.S wants to emulate disinformation campaigns others are using. The irony of three letter agencies condemning AI campaigns while the Pentagon is going “We want that”, is insane but its to be expected I guess.
…Do you think the US government has never done disinformation campaigns before?
no, but they pretend otherwise, so them publicly salivating for it is a new level of embarrassing.
No. I’m not clueless or surprised. Just disappointed that we’re stooping to using AI bots to sow discord like Russia is doing.
Office of Strategic Influence says sup
I assume this is the same reason why they want to ban TikTok but not Facebook - it’s not so much that they object to the data harvesting, they just object to non-American data harvesting that they can’t readily influence.
I don’t get it. They’re not already?
.world will double in users again
So they can save money by firing their army of nafo meat puppets?
I mean they did had IRL meeting probably because even they didn’t believed they are real people lol.
Can we have a side internet, for us normal people?
No.
/sadface
I think the saving grace of the Internet is in the small holes that arent populated enough for these big actors to care about. If you’re influencing a nation, you probably aren’t going to inject your AI slop into a tiny proboards or like the forum on Gaia Online.
except gaia is one of the largest forums on earth.
they have more subscribers than Apple TV+
That exists it’s called tildeverse and gemini
Have you got a more specific search term for Gemini? Unfortunately the word has been taken by Google
Here ya go!
Thanks!
Unfortunately, if everybody goes there the bots will follow.
What’s the pros and cons of those?
Both go back to 90s tech so you lose a lot of functionality. Gemini is mainly text based with links to files. So think pre web text pages at University’s but it’s cool to read people’s pages without all the distractions of images and video. I have read some cool stories on there. Got an awesome cookie recipe as well from a person in Denmark.
So they want to automate the use of troll-farms?
Weird how they’re doing the thing they accuse others of doing. Almost like it’s a confession.
Projection is a major problem
Dude I can’t even pass a catchpa these day. I still don’t know if a e-bike is a scooter, a bike, or a moped.
Are you jealous of the other bots who can?
Captcha and I can never agree on what is and isn’t a bus.
Click on all busses:
This would work for a short while as long as the user knows their hardware.
They keep showing me strange street features from distant countries and ask me shit like “mark all the crosswalks”. And i look at it and think “no idea, what this is, no crosswalk i have ever seen looked like this, so i guess it it is something different”.
And then i have to do the next captcha. Sometimes i am caught in captcha hell, where i have to solve captchas until i give up and close the browser.
There is a short story in here about someone who can’t pass a captcha, loses their identity, and has to move on to becoming a fisherman in Norway.
Fisherman in Norway is probably an upgrade for some people lol
What sites are still using image captchas and not “Click here if you are not a robot”?
I just realized I don’t surf the web randomly anymore, mainly because of crap like that.
When i click them, they oftentimes show me a captcha afterwards, as they apparently don’t believe me. I once solved captcha after captcha for like two minutes and then ragequit, finally accepting, that i am a robot.
Dead internet, it will be drowned in bots.
Already is
Bro I’ve about a dozen I can sell you right now
The listing notes that special operations troops “will use this capability to gather information from public online forums,” with no further explanation of how these artificial internet users will be used.
Any chance that’s the real reason and not just a flimsy excuse? What kind of information would you even need a fake identity to gather from a public forum?
CSAM?
I guess there are probably a lot of people trading that stuff dumb enough to be networking on facebook and instagram with their real identities
As if any institution, org or group that has an agenda to push doesn’t have battalions of bots guiding the discussion of forums to whichever way they want and not just fake followers and likes. As if people would need permission or would ask for it even if they had to. You just cant have any real sense of the public opinion on the internet, if there ever was such a time.
So we really are going for a dead internet. Nobody is going to want to interact with bots all day online. But maybe that’s the point, harder to organize organically on the streets without a presence online.
Wow. Hadn’t thought about it that way.
