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The X Safety team probed suspected Chinese accounts involved in influence operations and identified 200,000 accounts, including 200 accounts "posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy," the team said in a tweet.
Key facts
- The X Safety team probed suspected Chinese accounts involved in influence operations and identified 200,000 accounts, including 200 accounts "posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate
- The 'All In' chattering class 'Chinese psyop' thing is worrying and frustrating," Jim Prosser, a Silicon Valley communications consultant and former Twitter head of corporate communications, told
- Roughly 200 accounts from a suspected Chinese bot farm have quietly tried to influence Americans to oppose AI data centers on social media, X said Thursday night
- Congressional Republicans have been digging into influence campaigns from foreign adversaries designed to stall American AI development
Summary
Roughly 200 accounts from a suspected Chinese bot farm have quietly tried to influence Americans to oppose AI data centers on social media, X said Thursday night. The U.S. and China are racing to build the world's most advanced AI systems, and it appears Chinese propaganda has infiltrated American circles with the hope of slowing the U.S. down. The posts included content on how AI strains the electricity grid and increases utility prices and "cartoons that depicted data-center operators enriching themselves at the public's expense. It's unclear what, if any, action X will take to suspend or delete accounts from the bot farm.