This week CyberCX Intelligence identified a network of at least 5,000 inauthentic X accounts almost certainly controlled in concert by an artificial intelligence (AI) Large Language Model (LLM) based system. The system controlling this network, which we have dubbed the Green Cicada Network, is strongly associated with China, including the likely use of a Chinese-language LLM system and links to an AI researcher affiliated with Tsinghua University and Zhipu AI, a prominent Chinese AI company. The Green Cicada Network primarily engages with divisive US political issues and may plausibly be staged to interfere in the upcoming presidential election. It has also amplified hot-button political issues in other democracies, including Australia, the UK, western Europe, India, Japan and other countries. CyberCX has published an Intelligence Update with the intention of exposing this network before it causes harm and to facilitate further research. The Green Cicada Network also offers important insights about emerging malicious uses of generative AI. You can download the full report here: https://lnkd.in/d4Hj8uXB
One could create a web browser plugin that checks if the currently viewed social media account is a suspected ai robot. Account blacklists just need to be public.
Amber Spence
2mo
Wow! That is super interesting. I wonder what Elon thinks or if he even cares.
Head of Data Science and Research
2moThe link is broken, could you check it?