AI-powered Russian influence campaign spreads anti-Ukraine propaganda
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Occurred: February 2022
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A fake AI-powered pro-Russian influence campaign attempted to spread anti-Ukrainian propaganda, sparking concerns about the use of AI to create and spread misinformation and disinformation.
According to Meta, the so-called 'Kyiv' campaign took the form of dozens of fake profiles using AI-generated pictures, including of an aviation engineer, news editors and scientific authors.ย
Posing as independent news desks operating out of Kyiv, the fake profiles were used to publish content on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Telegram, and Russian social networks Odnoklassniki and VK.
The profiles were taken down for violating Meta's coordinated inauthentic behaviour policy.
โ February 2022. Ukrainian authorities also shut down a Russian bot farm in Lviv capable of deploying 18,000 fake accounts, and a smaller one that posted fake information about Ukraine on Telegram, WhatsApp and Viber.
Deepfake
Deepfakes (a portmanteau of 'deep learning' and 'fake') are images, videos, or audio which are edited or generated using artificial intelligence tools, and which may depict real or non-existent people. They are a type of synthetic media.
Source: Wikipedia ๐
Operator: ย ย ย
Developer: ย
Country: Ukraine; Russia
Sector: Govt - defence
Purpose: Damage reputation
Technology: Deepfake - image; Machine learning ย
Issue: Mis/disinformation
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Type: Incident
Published: March 2022
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