🤖 China Spreads Lies Using AI

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We don’t need a keynote to show you these headlines:

• China uses AI to spread conspiracies

• Researchers use PaLM to forecast inflation

• AI is stressing out workers

• Salesforce pushes forward on the movement toward AI in everything

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It happened again.

A group of watchdogs spotted a mass misinformation campaign originating in China that peddled conspiracies around the Maui wildfires. Before you ask, yes, AI was central to making this possible.

This incident is not the first time China’s influence campaign used fake AI images to help spread lies. 

They’ve tested image generators' ability to produce viral misinformation for over a year.

This campaign centered around US intelligence officials testing a new weapon.

The conspiracy argued that the United States wanted to test a device that could alter weather patterns and the environment. It’s not a logical narrative, but the intent is clear.

The Chinese government wants people to distrust American officials and see their intelligence operations as corrupt. If you consider the fiasco around their “weather balloon,” this is an effort to turn that narrative around on the US.

But their efforts aren’t focused solely on unfriendly neighbors.

Leaders in China can harness AI to construct any “truth” they want now. AI can make images that reflect a new reality, and sophisticated bots can spread propaganda that most people will never detect as a bot.

The information war reaches a new threshold with this news.

It’s up to all of us to stay vigilant and find ways to combat deception from any government or bad actors.

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This news caught my eye.

Researchers discovered that PaLM, Google’s most modern LLM, is a better inflation forecaster than the industry standard. The stats prove that AI is an incredible prediction tool and can help us find patterns we’d miss otherwise.

Now, the idea that AI is better at forecasting financial data than simple ML algorithms is not a novel concept.

Quantitative researchers at hedge funds have been using AI for this exact use case for years.

It’s the fact PaLM is free to academic researchers and more accessible to the public that feels encouraging.

There’s a future where day traders and barebones funds can access the same leverage the industry leaders use today. That’s good and bad for several reasons, but public access to the best financial data is crucial to fair markets.

Here’s the prompt the researchers used by the way:

A note on that prompt: According to the Financial Times, τ was set to a given date for the SPF data being submitted.

It’s not earth-shattering news, but it does show we’re closer to LLMs, providing a real edge to financial analysts who know how to shape AI’s abilities in the right direction.

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