Ask HN: LLMs being used to spread propaganda, how can we stop it?
This thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35726563 - is interesting. Multiple brand new accounts are spreading pro American and anti communist talking points
On Reddit a couple of communities I follow have had an odd thing happen. A flood of new accounts, all speaking intelligibly, spreading what can only be described as toxicity, outrage porn and concealed propaganda through mass commenting. When you looked into it the amount of brand new accounts is staggering.
This is just a feeling but could it be that the Cambridge Analytica spin offs (which we know still operate) have been woken up to the potential of LLMs to spread propaganda?
Let’s say I’m wrong now. I have to assume I will eventually be right.
It would be terrifying to think because I’m not sure how to fight against this. Is there a way?
On Reddit a couple of communities I follow have had an odd thing happen. A flood of new accounts, all speaking intelligibly, spreading what can only be described as toxicity, outrage porn and concealed propaganda through mass commenting. When you looked into it the amount of brand new accounts is staggering.
This is just a feeling but could it be that the Cambridge Analytica spin offs (which we know still operate) have been woken up to the potential of LLMs to spread propaganda?
Let’s say I’m wrong now. I have to assume I will eventually be right.
It would be terrifying to think because I’m not sure how to fight against this. Is there a way?