Par Murielle Delaporte – On a coutume de souligner le rôle de l’intelligence artificielle dans la multiplication des fausses informations et des campagnes de désinformation à grande échelle. Il est rassurant de constater que cette arme commence à se retourner très efficacement contre ceux cherchant à en faire un usage nuisible.
Dans un article publié en ligne le 7 février 2024 par le mensuel américain Wired* (lequel fait partie des Publications Condé Nast), une campagne de désinformation en provenance de Russie incitant à la sécession et à la guerre civile est mise en lumière, alors que la thématique de la protection des frontières contre l’immigration illégale et la situation au Texas en particulier continuent de faire les grands titres de la presse outre-atlantique. L’aide de l’intelligence artificielle y est soulignée au travers du travail de recherche et d’analyse réalisé par une des sociétés en charge de détecter ce type de campagnes de façon beaucoup plus rapide qu’auparavant.
Le site internet de cette société, Logically, décrit ainsi sa fonction :
« Logically Intelligence® ingests millions of data points daily from a multitude of sources, including public channels and closed networks, allowing users to map and analyze multilingual and cross-platform data.
Built on artificial intelligence and secure, scalable cloud infrastructure, Logically Intelligence® helps analysts monitor and assess the online landscape for damaging activity and narratives. » 1
1 https://www.logically.ai/logically-intelligence
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*Extrait de l’article de Wired
By David Gilbert – Russia Is Boosting Calls for ‘Civil War’ Over Texas Border Crisis
An all-encompassing Russian disinformation campaign is using everything from bots to lifestyle influencers to powerful state-run media to sow division in the United States.
A Russian disinformation campaign is deploying everything from high-ranking lawmakers and government officials to lifestyle influencers, bloggers, and powerful state-run media outlets to stoke divisions in the United States around the Texas border crisis.
WIRED has also obtained exclusive access to data from two separate disinformation research groups that demonstrate a coordinated Russian effort on Telegram and X (formerly Twitter) to sow discord by pushing the narrative that the US is heading for civil war. (…)
“Establishing a People’s Republic of Texas is getting more and more real,” Medvedev added on X, claiming the situation could lead to “a bloody civil war which cost thousands upon thousands of lives.”
Others chimed in: “It’s high time the American president, following in his predecessor Obama’s footsteps, declares ‘Texas must go’ and assembles an international coalition to liberate its residents in the name of democracy,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova wrote on Telegram. Russian lawmaker Sergey Mironov even offered Texas help: “If necessary, we are ready to help with the independence referendum. And of course, we will recognize the People’s Republic of Texas if there is one,” Mironov wrote on X. (…)
Lire la suite >>> https://www.wired.com/story/russia-disinformation-campaign-civil-war-texas-border/
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