Russia uses AI to create content favorable to Trump – media

Russia leads all countries in the amount of artificial intelligence (AI)-based content used to influence the US presidential election. Reuters reported this referring to an employee of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).

He said the artificial intelligence-based content produced by Moscow “is consistent with a broader Russian effort to promote the candidacy of the former president (Trump) and discredit the vice president (Harris) and the Democratic Party, including through of conspiracy theories.”

Like other forms of artificial intelligence, generative AI learns from past data how to take actions. Using this learning, it creates new content such as text, images, and videos that are likely to have been created by humans.

An ODNI spokesman said Russia was developing more AI content to influence the November election than any other country, but did not say the amount of that AI content.

Russia is a more experienced player, with a better understanding of how US elections work and what targets to target, he said.

When asked about how Russia spreads content using artificial intelligence, the official pointed to the Justice Department’s July 9 announcement that it had shut down a possible Moscow-backed operation that used artificial intelligence-enhanced social media accounts to distribute in the United States and others. countries.

The official said “Russian influencers” orchestrated a widely publicized video in which a woman claimed to be the victim of a hit-and-run car accident in which Harris fled. However, the video was directed and not created by AI, he said. Last week, Microsoft said its investigation showed the video was the result of a covert Russian disinformation operation.

China is using AI content to try to influence how it is perceived around the world, but not to influence the outcome of the US election, the official said.