Five AI and Disinformation Stories You Need To Read This Week
After your weekly AI and disinformation fix? We’re Valent, and we identify disinformation threats with our research team and AI tool, Ariadne. Here’s what’s piqued our interest this week.
Daily Mail’s coverage of our bank investigation
The Daily Mail covered our latest investigation, which showed that the second largest bank failure in US history happened despite the fundamental soundness of the bank in question. Its vulnerability was not it’s balance sheet but the perception that it looked like Silicon Valley Bank - Amil
Could AI create a one-person unicorn? Sam Altman thinks so—and Silicon Valley sees the technology ‘waiting for us’
At Valent, we already incorporate the principle of multi-agent AI into our data pipelines. The concept of a fully automated business is actually much closer than most would assume, thanks to services such as Hustle-GPT, which started as an open-source GitHub project (https://hustleai.co/hustlegpt). The principle essentially utilizes multiple AI instances (agents) to assume different roles, such as a product manager AI, a software architect AI, and a software engineer AI, which work together to fulfill commercial objectives. - Ferg
Former PM of Denmark writes about disinfo
Social media platforms' policies concerning misleading and fake content need upgrading to close loopholes, argues Denmark's former Prime Minister, who also sits on Meta's Oversight Board. The key quote is: "To keep pace with the threat posed by bad actors, social media platforms don't need to reinvent the wheel. They should reduce complexity and return to basics." - Amil
Türkiye faced barrage of disinformation after 2023 earthquakes
The government department in Turkey tasked with addressing disinformation says that the country has faced campaigns aimed at weakening trust in authorities and rescue efforts following natural disasters.
AI chatbots tend to choose violence and nuclear strikes in wargames
AI actors in wargames? Slightly sensationalist headline alert. The point not properly addressed in the article is that the AI was likely basing its decisions on data taken from the internet. Could the model have been trained on hypothetical scenarios, such as video game chatter? - Amil & Ferg \
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