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U.S. busts Russian AI bot farm spreading disinformation on X
The U.S. Justice Department takes down an AI-driven Russian bot farm using 1,000 fake accounts to spread propaganda.
The FBI, along with Dutch intelligence and Canadian cybersecurity officials, warned about “ Meliorator,” a tool capable of creating “authentic appearing social media personas en masse.” It can also generate text and images, and echo disinformation from other bots. “Russia intended to use this bot farm to disseminate AI-generated foreign disinformation, scaling their work with the assistance of AI to undermine our partners in Ukraine and influence geopolitical narratives favorable to the Russian government,” Wray added. According to the news outlet, they “can copy-paste OTPs from their email accounts to log in.” The Justice Department reported that this operation’s use of U.S.-based domain names constitutes a violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
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