Facebook profiles of people created using artificial intelligence are being used to support US President Donald Trump and us to convey messages against China. Security experts from Graphika and the Digitial Forensics Research Lab say this is the first time this data has been used with the capacity to misinform social networks, Reuters reports.
The news also confirmed the largest social network, adding that they had removed 610 Facebook profiles, 89 pages, 152 groups and 72 Instagram profiles. The ad group alone spent $ 9 million. As for the topics that are being promoted, these are "hot" political topics, for example impeachment, but also conservative ideology, politicians, elections and the like. The names of some of the groups that are now deleted are: "America Needs President Trump", "TRUMP MAGA 2020", and "WE STAND WITH TRUMP & PENCE!"
The group that now manages the pages and profiles is Beauty of Life and is part of Epoch Times. Epoch tried to deny the news and explain that companies are special and BL is a company of former employees. However, as further evidence, Facebook pointed out that the executives of this company are the administrators of Epoch Times.
The characters used by the group are created with the help of artificial intelligence trained by human images. After completing his studies, artificial intelligence can create characters for people who do not exist and have never seen them before. For now, thanks to bugs around the ears and the background it's easy to see that it's not about people, but in the future as technology improves, images will be more realistic.
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