Beijing did a test run in Taiwan using AI-generated content to influence voters away from a pro-sovereignty candidate
China will attempt to disrupt elections in the US, South Korea and India this year with artificial intelligence-generated content after making a dry run with the presidential poll in Taiwan, Microsoft has warned.
The US tech firm said it expected Chinese state-backed cyber groups to target high-profile elections in 2024, with North Korea also involved, according to a report by the company’s threat intelligence team published on Friday.
“As populations in India, South Korea and the United States head to the polls, we are likely to see Chinese cyber and influence actors, and to some extent North Korean cyber actors, work toward targeting these elections,” the report reads.
Microsoft said that “at a minimum” China will create and distribute through social media AI-generated content that “benefits their positions in these high-profile elections”.
It does, because the US is moving much of its manufacturing away from China. That’s a shit ton of lost revenue.
The rest of the world is quickly stepping into the 21st century and China is ready to manufacture whatever they need.
See also: the massive amounts of capital China is pouring into renewable energy investments in Africa. While U.S. oil companies drag their feet and blow smoke about how bad solar/wind is.