OpenAI says Iranian group using ChatGPT tried to sow division ahead of U.S. election

Legally easier to ignore a ghost department.

well, for other security research, they often rely on things like timestamps (even state sponsored hackers have nights and weekends), typos that only make sense with certain keyboards, and who is targeted. For example, Russian keyboarss don't have the : symbol, so the :) emoji is usually typed as "))", which can be a dead giveaway that the hacker uses a a Slavic language keyboard.

However, let's not pretend for a second that disinformation and propaganda are only pushed by the listed countries. I'm old enough to remember when lies pushed by the Bush administration to the New York Times that were used to manufacturer public consent for the Iraq war.

Or how NATO promises they're supporting Ukraine out of the goodness of their hearts and that it has absolutely nothing to do with their abundant natural gas supplies that are currently being sold off to oil companies based in NATO countries. (Slava Ukraini, for the record, but fuck the oil companies).

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/naftogaz-held-talks-with-big-us-oil-companies-about-ukraine-energy-projects-ft-2023-04-21/

Throw political pacs in there as well. Anyone can hire one of those sweatshops in se Asia to do this stuff.

I’m not convinced you can. The NSA had the whistle blown on their little fingerprint gloves they would wear, highly doubt in todays age you could know definitively who is doing what

Oh. Yeah. I work as a systems guy on AI related tasks, but I have a strong mathematical background in math, so I understand the AI stuff well. I just find the management of clusters and reliability engineering to be far more interesting than getting a computer to hallucinate nonsense. Anyway, the systems people are always dunking on the AI people for not knowing the basics of software like using ssh, setting up a firewall, or using version control software. We say things like, "yeah, but remember that the AI guys are the users, so we have to make it idiot proof" and "what's the difference between malware and a neural network? Not much, but one only runs on Nvidia"

Previously, I was the platform engineer for a self driving car project owned by a very large vehicle OEM. I would never get in a Tesla using "full self driving" and neither would any of my colleagues then or now. By the way, that self driving project collapsed because a very capable car manufacturer that produces more vehicles in a day than Tesla produces in a year realized it would never work at the consumer level and we had the benefit of a half a million dollars worth of military grade localization equipment, while Tesla is trying to get by on webcams and magic.

Hell, you can pull up countless, peer reviewed papers in the AI field that don't have error bars or any statistical hypothesis testing at all, authored by labs at MIT or Facebook. It's terrifyingly bad.

tl;dr AI people are generally the least competent people I've met in my field-- which is AI.