War of the AI bots: The new frontier of global disinformation

War of the AI bots: The new frontier of global disinformation
What started out as an investigation into 70 malfunctioning accounts soon spiralled into an investigation of other accounts. (Image: Getty)
Dileepa Fonseka
Disinformation experts say a large artificial intelligence network, including social media accounts pretending to be from New Zealand, aims to disrupt social cohesion in English-speaking democracies.Cybersecurity company CyberCX claimed to have unmasked a network of more than 5,000 social media accounts created and controlled by artificial intelligence (AI) based in China, which CyberCX terms the “Green Cicada” network.CyberCX Intelligence executive director Katherine Mansted said the company believed this was the first public disco...

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