The research also reveals entirely new forms of communication that blur the distinction between good and bad uses of AI
Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science newsOne of the great fears of modern times is that generative AI systems are giving malicious actors unprecedented power to lie, manipulate and steal on a scale previously unimaginable and that this will undermine our systems of trust, democracy and society.
Now we get an answer of sorts thanks to the work of Nahema Marchal at Google DeepMind and Rachel Xu at Google Jigsaw and colleagues, who have studied the misuse of generative AI and the way it has evolved in the last couple of years. Their approach has revealed a wide variety of malicious activities that they have categorized.
They then further subdivide these categories. The first and most common category that exploits generative AI involves realistically depicting human likenesses for tasks such as impersonation, creating synthetic personalities and producing non-consensual sexual imagery. “The most prevalent cluster of tactics involve the manipulation of human likeness, especially Impersonation,” say Marchal, Xu and co.
political avatars emerged that addressed individual voters by name using whatever language they spoke The production of non-consensual sexual imagery is also an active area of commercial activity, for example,Of course, the research has some limitations that the researchers are keen to highlight. For example, it is based entirely on media reports of malicious online activity, an approach which can introduce bias.
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