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Automatically generating disinformation at scale

"Disinformation (in various modalities: text, audio, images, video, etc.) can be generated with minimal human oversight and effort. Disinformation tools are relatively cheap and their technology is widely available. Such deployments can be particularly widespread in sensitive political contexts."

AI Risk4. Malicious Actors & Misuse4.1 > Disinformation, surveillance, and influence at scale2 - Post-deployment

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Domain4. Malicious Actors & MisuseThe broad risk area this belongs to.

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Domain4. Malicious Actors & Misuse
Subdomain4.1 > Disinformation, surveillance, and influence at scale
Entity1 - Human
Intent1 - Intentional
Timing2 - Post-deployment
CategoryImpacts of AI (Societal Impacts)
SubcategoryAutomatically generating disinformation at scale

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