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The Pentagon Wants to Use AI to Create Deepfake Internet Users (theintercept.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.”

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[–] Wolfram 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

…Do you think the US government has never done disinformation campaigns before?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

no, but they pretend otherwise, so them publicly salivating for it is a new level of embarrassing.

[–] Lennny 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Office of Strategic Influence says sup

[–] Wolfram 0 points 2 months ago

No. I'm not clueless or surprised. Just disappointed that we're stooping to using AI bots to sow discord like Russia is doing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] P00ptart 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't think that's what they want to use it for. Disinformation is super easy. What they want to do is use bots to gather Intel on citizens.

[–] Wolfram 2 points 2 months ago

Por que no los dos? They'd definitely use this capability to do both.