SEOUL: Combating disinformation together with AI-enabled content material is a “very important” nationwide safety curiosity and diplomatic precedence for america, Secretary of State Antony Blinken mentioned Monday at a democracy summit in Seoul.
Blinken is in South Korea for this week’s third Summit for Democracy, an initiative of US President Joe Biden, which brings collectively authorities officers, NGOs and civil society members.
Saying that digital applied sciences, together with each social media and synthetic intelligence, had been “dramatically accelerating the velocity and unfold of disinformation,” Blinken outlined US efforts to push again in opposition to the problem.
“Constructing a extra resilient data setting is a crucial US nationwide safety curiosity and an pressing precedence for our diplomacy,” he mentioned.
“As we speak, the State Division is releasing what we’re calling a ‘Democratic Roadmap’ of suggestions to assist individuals develop into extra conscious of and immune to data manipulation,” he mentioned.
This would come with “encouraging social media platforms to label AI-generated content material, so customers know when a picture is actual or when it’s not,” he mentioned.
Blinken additionally outlined a raft of efforts to assist the media business, together with a crackdown on “the misuse of economic adware to surveil and harass journalists, human rights defenders, and others — together with leveraging sanctions, export controls, and visa restrictions to carry governments and corporations accountable”.
Ultimately 12 months’s summit, 10 nations dedicated to making sure adware expertise was deployed “in line with common human rights and fundamental freedoms,” he mentioned, with one other half a dozen nations — together with host South Korea — signing on this 12 months.
Propaganda-spewing web sites have usually relied on armies of writers, however generative synthetic intelligence instruments now supply a considerably cheaper and sooner method to fabricate content material that’s usually onerous to decipher from genuine data.
Tons of of AI-powered websites mimicking information retailers have cropped up in current months, fueling an explosion of false narratives — about all the things from warfare to politicians — that researchers say is stoking alarm in a 12 months of high-stake elections world wide.
Consultants say that auto-generated misinformation might have a serious affect on the US 2024 election, with many different nations, together with South Korea which has parliamentary elections in April, additionally involved concerning the challenge.
Blinken is in South Korea for this week’s third Summit for Democracy, an initiative of US President Joe Biden, which brings collectively authorities officers, NGOs and civil society members.
Saying that digital applied sciences, together with each social media and synthetic intelligence, had been “dramatically accelerating the velocity and unfold of disinformation,” Blinken outlined US efforts to push again in opposition to the problem.
“Constructing a extra resilient data setting is a crucial US nationwide safety curiosity and an pressing precedence for our diplomacy,” he mentioned.
“As we speak, the State Division is releasing what we’re calling a ‘Democratic Roadmap’ of suggestions to assist individuals develop into extra conscious of and immune to data manipulation,” he mentioned.
This would come with “encouraging social media platforms to label AI-generated content material, so customers know when a picture is actual or when it’s not,” he mentioned.
Blinken additionally outlined a raft of efforts to assist the media business, together with a crackdown on “the misuse of economic adware to surveil and harass journalists, human rights defenders, and others — together with leveraging sanctions, export controls, and visa restrictions to carry governments and corporations accountable”.
Ultimately 12 months’s summit, 10 nations dedicated to making sure adware expertise was deployed “in line with common human rights and fundamental freedoms,” he mentioned, with one other half a dozen nations — together with host South Korea — signing on this 12 months.
Propaganda-spewing web sites have usually relied on armies of writers, however generative synthetic intelligence instruments now supply a considerably cheaper and sooner method to fabricate content material that’s usually onerous to decipher from genuine data.
Tons of of AI-powered websites mimicking information retailers have cropped up in current months, fueling an explosion of false narratives — about all the things from warfare to politicians — that researchers say is stoking alarm in a 12 months of high-stake elections world wide.
Consultants say that auto-generated misinformation might have a serious affect on the US 2024 election, with many different nations, together with South Korea which has parliamentary elections in April, additionally involved concerning the challenge.
