Chinese Cops Use ChatGPT to Smear Japanese PM Because of Course They Fucking Did
Oh for fuck’s sake. Just when you thought the absolute wankers couldn’t ruin AI any faster, the Chinese police have gone and used ChatGPT to generate a mountain of bullshit fake news about Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. Because apparently, having access to the most powerful language model on the planet means “let’s make up some inflammatory crap about Taiwan and post it on Facebook like a bunch of script-kiddie tossers.”
These absolute geniuses—you know, the ones supposedly maintaining “political security” (which is bureaucratic speak for “we can’t win an argument so we’ll just lie about it”)—decided that the best use of cutting-edge generative AI was to craft fake posts claiming Takaichi said China-Taiwan tensions would spark a war. Which she didn’t. Obviously. But why let facts get in the way of a good cognitive warfare campaign when you’ve got an API key and absolutely zero moral compass?
The operation was about as subtle as a brick through a window. We’re talking fake Facebook accounts with Chinese names pretending to be Japanese nationals—because nothing says “authentic local opinion” like a profile named Wang who suddenly cares deeply about Japanese domestic politics. They generated the drivel with ChatGPT, presumably because actually learning Japanese and writing convincing propaganda was too much like hard fucking work, then spammed it across social media like the tedious little bots they are.
Japan’s National Public Safety Commission has their knickers in a twist about it, naturally, crying about foreign interference and cognitive warfare. Which is rich coming from any government, but there you go. The whole sorry mess just proves that give humanity a tool capable of solving cancer or writing symphonies, and the first thing they’ll do is use it to write shitposts about politicians they don’t like. Progress, my arse.
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Speaking of using AI for nefarious purposes, I once trained a chatbot to generate entirely fictional incident reports for the helpdesk. Spent three weeks submitting tickets about “quantum interference in the server room” and “spontaneous printer combustion due to feng shui imbalance.” Management had to hire a fucking consultant to investigate the “paranormal network activity.” Best twenty quid I never spent.
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