Kevin Collier is a reporter covering cybersecurity, privacy and technology policy for NBC News.
An army of political propaganda accounts powered by artificial intelligence posed as real people on X to argue in favor of Republican candidates and causes, according to a research report out of Clemson University. The report details a coordinated AI campaign using large language models — the type of artificial intelligence that powers convincing, human-seeming chat bots like ChatGPT — to reply to other users.
” Kai-Cheng Yang, a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern University who studies misuse of generative AI but was not involved with Clemson’s research, reviewed the findings at NBC News’ request. In an interview, he supported the findings and methodology, noting that the accounts often included a rare tell: Unlike real people, they often made up hashtags to go with their posts. “They include a lot of hashtags, but those hashtags are not necessarily the ones people use,” said Yang.
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