Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-08-01/Disinformation report

Update today (August 1)

The Guardian just published another article on the Sultan Al Jaber story. See "Leak reveals ‘touchy’ issues for UAE’s presidency of UN climate summit"

Smallbones_(smalltalk) 18:32, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

• Just a small note of appreciation to the folks working on disinfo/sockpuppet campaigns like the ones mentioned in this article. It goes unnoticed by many and is crucial to keeping the site healthy and reliable. Ckoerner (talk) 20:06, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

The AI university involvement is interesting, Smallbones. See Twitter thread by the BBC's climate change editor suggesting there are many AI-generated young ladies singing the Sultan's praises on Twitter. --Andreas JN466 06:32, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

@Jayen466: - There was a seemingly very big story in February describing how such networks could be bought or rented (?) on demand, complete with hundreds or thousands of social media accounts which can act autonomously, each with an independent history on social media, background stories, AI-generated photos, and in some cases credit cards. [1] DW, google "Team Jorge" for several more. Surprisingly, the story was dropped (but not withdrawn) after about a week for fairly mysterious reasons - perhaps because of the "fact" that the undercover videotaped interviews named a well-known Israeli company - but perhaps there were 2 companies with the same name in the same city? Perhaps there is a very indirect connection with an Israeli story I did. In short, the BBC reporter's twitter x story is very believable, but absolutely nailing down the facts will be very difficult. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 13:30, 14 August 2023 (UTC)