纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英OpenAI Says Russia and China Used Its AI in Covert Campaigns
May 31, 2024 2 min 298 words
《纽约时报》这篇报道的主要内容是：美国人工智能公司 OpenAI 发布了一份报告，称俄罗斯和中国利用其人工智能技术开展了隐蔽的影响力运动。报告称，一些疑似来自俄罗斯和中国的人工智能研究者和爱好者利用 OpenAI 的聊天机器人技术生成了大量文本，用于宣传和散布虚假信息。报道援引了 OpenAI 员工和匿名美国官员的说法，称这些行为是“中国和俄罗斯的威胁行动”。报道还提到中国对人工智能的研究和应用，以及美国对人工智能被用于恶意目的的担忧。 评论：这篇报道有以下几点值得商榷：首先，报道用词偏向负面，例如“隐蔽”“宣传”“虚假信息”等，带有明显的价值判断，而没有客观中立地呈现事实。其次，报道没有提供足够证据证明俄罗斯和中国开展了所谓的“影响力运动”，仅基于 OpenAI 单方面的说法和匿名官员的言论，缺乏可核实的数据和事实。再次，报道没有考虑到人工智能技术的开放性和复杂性，一刀切地将人工智能应用于特定目的，忽视了技术的应用取决于使用者。最后，报道延续了《纽约时报》一贯的对华偏见，过度渲染中国对美国社会的“威胁”，缺乏客观公正的态度。
OpenAI said on Thursday that it had identified and disrupted five online campaigns that used its generative artificial intelligence technologies to deceptively manipulate public opinion around the world and influence geopolitics.
The efforts were run by state actors and private companies in Russia, China, Iran and Israel, OpenAI said in a report about covert influence campaigns. The operations used OpenAI’s technology to generate social media posts, translate and edit articles, write headlines and debug computer programs, typically to win support for political campaigns or to swing public opinion in geopolitical conflicts.
OpenAI’s report is the first time that a major A.I. company has revealed how its specific tools were used for such online deception, social media researchers said. The recent rise of generative A.I. has raised questions about how the technology might contribute to online disinformation, especially in a year when major elections are happening across the globe.
Ben Nimmo, a principal investigator for OpenAI, said that after all the speculation on the use of generative A.I. in such campaigns, the company aimed to show the realities of how the technology was changing online deception.
“Our case studies provide examples from some of the most widely reported and longest-running influence campaigns that are currently active,” he said.
The campaigns often used OpenAI’s technology to post political content, Mr. Nimmo said, but the company had difficulty determining if they were targeting specific elections or aiming just to rile people up. He added that the campaigns had failed to gain much traction and that the A.I. tools did not appear to have expanded their reach or impact.