The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine

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5 points·seventytwo··7 comments

Posted 4 days ago with over 120 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13648165

ah perfect, thank you

Note that if you try to read this off the original scout.ai site (on Chrome), it clicktraps you from navigating back out, so do it in a tab whose context you don't care about.

That alone is enough for me to choose not read the author at all.

Hello, masonic! I just started as a new developer for Scout and can assure you that this behavior is 100% unintentional. From the looks of it, the "clicktrap" seems caused by an unnecessary redirection. I've taken a note to address this in the near future. Thank you for the feedback.

Anyone with a better grasp than myself on the AI domain care to comment on this piece?

the article was originally published here: https://www.scout.ai/story/the-rise-of-the-weaponized-ai-pro...

From their about page:

"Scout combines science fiction and journalism to bring you weekly online dispatches on the future of technology"

https://www.scout.ai/about

I'm not so sure if this is real.

To actually address your question. Text generation is a thing. They can actually caption images, although I dont know how good the grammar is. Simple markov chains go a long ways, though they dont create text with meaning.

Dont worry though, I'm sure both sides will use it. So it will be fair :P

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