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The plan, mentioned in a new 76-page wish list by the Department of Defense’s Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC, outlines advanced technologies desired for country’s most elite, clandestine military efforts. “Special Operations Forces (SOF) are interested in technologies that can generate convincing online personas for use on social media platforms, social networking sites, and other online content,” the entry reads.
The document specifies that JSOC wants the ability to create online user profiles that “appear to be a unique individual that is recognizable as human but does not exist in the real world,” with each featuring “multiple expressions” and “Government Identification quality photos.”
In addition to still images of faked people, the document notes that “the solution should include facial & background imagery, facial & background video, and audio layers,” and JSOC hopes to be able to generate “selfie video” from these fabricated humans. These videos will feature more than fake people: Each deepfake selfie will come with a matching faked background, “to create a virtual environment undetectable by social media algorithms.”
- Luffy879 ( @Luffy879@lemmy.ml ) 1•12 minutes ago
Any government does anything shady Oh! I i would not have thought that any government is using my patriotism for their malicious things!
- skuzz ( @skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de ) 1•28 minutes ago
I don’t get it. They’re not already?
- PolandIsAStateOfMind ( @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml ) 4•6 hours ago
.world will double in users again
- RobotToaster ( @RobotToaster@mander.xyz ) 5•11 hours ago
So they can save money by firing their army of nafo meat puppets?
- PolandIsAStateOfMind ( @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml ) 3•6 hours ago
I mean they did had IRL meeting probably because even they didn’t believed they are real people lol.
- TachyonTele ( @TachyonTele@lemm.ee ) 36•22 hours ago
Can we have a side internet, for us normal people?
- The Doctor ( @drwho@beehaw.org ) English1•2 hours ago
No.
- off_brand_ ( @off_brand_@beehaw.org ) 2•5 hours ago
I think the saving grace of the Internet is in the small holes that arent populated enough for these big actors to care about. If you’re influencing a nation, you probably aren’t going to inject your AI slop into a tiny proboards or like the forum on Gaia Online.
- Sundial ( @Sundial@lemm.ee ) 18•22 hours ago
So they want to automate the use of troll-farms?
- chicken ( @chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 7•19 hours ago
The listing notes that special operations troops “will use this capability to gather information from public online forums,” with no further explanation of how these artificial internet users will be used.
Any chance that’s the real reason and not just a flimsy excuse? What kind of information would you even need a fake identity to gather from a public forum?
- MonkderVierte ( @MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ) 1•56 minutes ago
CSAM?
- Aradina [She/They] ( @Aradina@lemmy.ml ) English13•21 hours ago
Weird how they’re doing the thing they accuse others of doing. Almost like it’s a confession.
- DeathsEmbrace ( @DeathsEmbrace@lemm.ee ) English4•21 hours ago
Projection is a major problem
- zante ( @zante@lemmy.wtf ) English14•22 hours ago
Bro I’ve about a dozen I can sell you right now