E-mails, school-college essays, articles or anything else that we brainstorm to write for our daily conversation is under threat due to artificial intelligence (AI) technology chatbot 'ChatGPT' which came out few weeks ago. had come. Created by technology company OpenAI, the chatbot can automatically answer human-written questions in an almost human-like manner.
How ChatGPT is a threat to democracy
There are rumors that these chatbots can also perform creative tasks like writing poetry or play scripts. But even more of this chatgap can be a greater threat to the democratic process. This artificial intelligence will replace humans in the fight for democracy; And it will do so not in terms of attracting voters, but in terms of lobbying.
ChatGPT can automatically generate comments on behalf of anyone in a controlled process. Write a mail to the editor of the local newspaper. Every day it can link millions of news stories or articles published in online newspapers, blogs and social media posts to comment on a specific agenda.
The Russian Internet Research Agency, a Russian agency to influence the US election in 2016, spent billions of dollars hiring hundreds of employees without spending the kind of money and manpower that ChatGPT can do.
The emergence of auto-written comments is not a new problem. Sometimes we have to deal with the activity of bots or machines that may post content automatically.
It is estimated that at least 1 million auto-recorded comments were submitted to the US Federal Communications Commission on a proposed anti-bias Internet policy five years ago. In 2019, a Harvard University graduate student experimentally used a text generation program to submit 1,001 comments after the US government invited the public for advisory comments on a public health issue. However, submitting comments at the time was mostly a numbers game.
The platforms now have advanced technology to detect 'organized untrustworthy behaviour' and automatically remove it. For example, Facebook has removed over 100 million fake accounts in the past year alone. But the way artificial intelligence is now being activated, it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish which messages are genuine, ie sent by humans, and which are automated.
Once the relevant person and strategy are identified, an AI chatbot like ChatGPT can match that person and strategy to generate text that can be used in letters, comments, etc. Human lobbyists can then communicate directly with the stakeholders identified by the artificial intelligence.
Instead of automatically filling MPs' inboxes with e-mails or keeping the Capitol switchboard busy with synthetic voice calls, artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT can be used to selectively target MPs and communicate directly with them by identifying weaknesses in the policy-making system. Can be done to do. This can affect public relations campaigns and mislead legislators.
When we humans do these things, we call them lobbying. Many professional organizations have also emerged for the task of writing messages in trendy languages and delivering them to target audiences for specific purposes. Now ChatGPT-equipped lobbyists will deploy campaigns like unmanned drones used in warfare.
It is an artificial intelligence that can understand the dynamics of political networks. Using ChatGPT's text generation capabilities, the system determines which members of Congress are influential at the policy-making level; It can automatically detect which members of Congress are able to influence corporate tax policy and which members are able to influence military spending policy. Similar to human lobbyists, when a bill goes to a floor vote, the system can target representatives from policy-making committees of interest and members of the majority party.
Once the relevant person and strategy are identified, an AI chatbot like ChatGPT can match that person and strategy to generate text that can be used in letters, comments, etc. Human lobbyists can then communicate directly with the stakeholders identified by the artificial intelligence.
The ability to learn about the capabilities and influence of executives within a network is one of the greatest tools of artificial intelligence. It would be capable of hacking with incredible speed and causing social, economic and political unrest.
So strong is the motive for attacking the policy-making system; The data needed to train such systems is so freely available and artificial intelligence so difficult to detect that, logically, lawmakers would be selectively targeted. As the days pass this artificial intelligence will be trained. And the more democracy will be in danger.
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