OpenAI has recently said that it has removed accounts of users from China and North Korea, who the company believes were using technology for malicious purposes. These include surveillance and opinion-influence operations, it said.
In the report, the company said that several accounts were using ChatGPT to write sales pitches and debug code for a suspected social media surveillance tool. In particular, they were using the technology to advertise and augment an AI assistant capable of collecting real-time data and reports about anti-China protests in the US, UK, and other Western countries.
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Using AI tools to detect the operations, OpenAI said that authoritarian regimes use these activities and tactics. While the exact number of accounts that have been banned hasn’t been revealed, it said that in one instance, users used ChatGPT to generate news articles in Spanish, denigrating the United States. Mainstream news outlets in Latin America published these under a Chinese company’s byline.
Other instances involved using ChatGPT technology to generate resumes and online profiles for made-up job applicants, to fraudulently get jobs at Western companies. These findings come at a time when China has been seen advancing in AI by using American technology.
“This is a pretty troubling glimpse into the way one non-democratic actor tried to use democratic or US-based AI for non-democratic purposes, according to the materials they were generating themselves,”
– Ben Nimmo, OpenAI’s principal investigator on the company’s intelligence and investigations team.
Nimmo further stated that OpenAI has published such cases to shed light on how “authoritarian regimes may try to leverage US-built AI, democratic AI, against the US and allied countries, as well as their own people.”
In recent months, the company has been warning politicians in the US about the potentially growing economic and national security threats coming from Chinese-built artificial intelligence.
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10. Unity Software Inc. (NYSE:U)
Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 48
Unity Software Inc. (NYSE:U) provides a software platform that allows users to create interactive content for games, simulations, and other experiences. On February 21, Benchmark upgraded the stock to “Hold” from Sell with no price target. The firm upgraded the stock stating that many concerns that it had for the stock are “either materialized or now appear to be longer-term potential realizations.”
Nevertheless, one major concern that remains is the secular challenges in game development from artificial intelligence. The firm cautioned that evolving as a real competitor in the mobile game market will be “exceedingly difficult” for Unity. This is because of AppLovin’s (APP) consistent success and significant lead.
