M.Krishnamoorthy
A media coach, adjunct professor, and author
Foreign interference through an Israeli company used Open AI ChatGPT to influence over 640 million voters in India’s national general elections this week.
Money has been used to bring down BJP and support the Congress. India Republic TV broadcaster Arnab Goswami has called on Congress to explain why it used AI to challenge the BJP. ChatGPT has announced that it has proof Congress used social media including X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, beginning in May to attack the BJP.
Now, the threat is, will AI be used to influence Malaysian voters in GE 16 in about three years?
In 2013’s GE 14 general elections, UK's Cambridge Analytica was used by Najib Razak’s Barisan Nasional government.
An Israeli company, STOIC, used social media in the past few months to bring down the current Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP through fake news and misinformation targeting the ruling BJP political party.
OpenAI in a statement noted that it had stalled attempts by an Israel-based company to interfere in Indian elections.
Open AI said it is committed to developing safe and broadly beneficial AI.
The Hindu newspaper reported that OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT, has said it acted within 24 hours to disrupt deceptive uses of AI in covert operations focused on the Indian elections, leading to no significant audience increase.
In a report on its website, OpenAI said STOIC, a political campaign management firm in Israel, generated some content on Indian elections alongside the Gaza conflict.
Commenting on the report, Minister of State for Electronics & Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said, “It is absolutely clear and obvious that @BJP4India was and is the target of influence operations. Describing its operations, OpenAI said activity by a commercial company in Israel called STOIC was disrupted.
Only the activity was disrupted, not the company. “In May, the network began generating comments that focused on India, criticized the ruling BJP party, and praised the opposition Congress party,” it said. “In May, we disrupted some activity focused on the Indian elections less than 24 hours after it began.”
OpenAI said it banned a cluster of accounts operated from Israel that were being used to generate and edit content for an influence operation that spanned X, Facebook, Instagram, websites, and YouTube.
“This operation targeted audiences in Canada, the United States, and Israel with content in English and Hebrew. In early May, it began targeting audiences in India with English-language content.” It did not elaborate.
Click to see an open debate in Indian TV on the influence of Open AI ChatGPT.
Freelance Writer M. Krishnamoorthy (www.imkrishna.net) is a media coach, adjunct professor, and undercover journalist. He has freelanced with Bernama, NST, The Star, and Malaysiakini. He also freelances as a fixer/coordinator for CNN, BBC, German and Australian Television networks and the New York Times. As an undercover journalist, he has highlighted society's concerns.
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