OpenAI has published a report about ChatGPT users, who it says were likely based in China, that used the chatbot to plan a campaign designed to sway Americans’ opinions about AI data centers.
It divided the users into two clusters, the first of which it had designated the “Data Center Bandwagon” group. Accounts categorized in the group allegedly asked ChatGPT to generate English-language talking points and images, such as comic strips, which focus on how AI data centers drive up demand in electricity and how that leads to higher bills for consumers.
The company says these users posed as Americans from a variety of backgrounds on social media, where they had posted the text and image output they got from ChatGPT. OpenAI believes they’re part of a social media team at a private Chinese company working for local government clients. They apparently even uploaded a file to the chatbot describing their objectives and strategies on how to sway public opinion and how to establish fake social media accounts without getting detected.
Lmfao fuck off, Altman, you fucking tool
“Open AI says” and I believe that when me shit turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbet.
"It’s China, bro, believe me. Everyone actually loves data centers.
Also, just another billion dollars bro, that’s all."
Chinese fakes, you have my blessing and my axe.
Nobody gives a fuck what OpenAI says. Piss off.
Who says that ?? lmaoo
The Chinese are probably behind antifa too, huh Sam?
Earlier on today it was just a vague idea that was being thrown about by tech bros. Now one of their companies (that makes products which generate things you want to hear out of thin air} has found definitive proof. I’m not saying that they are pathetic fucking liars but it would be nice to have this confirmed by an independent party.
probably had an intern change their windows’ locale to prc and then construct the ‘proof’
“Snake Oil Salesman says Anti Snake Oil Propaganda Was Created By Communist Reds!”
Holy shit, I’ve seen this headline before!
The theory that China is paying local activists in America to oppose data centers is catching on like wildfire among the Silicon Valley elite, despite a lack of evidence. Wealthy investors are naming names and pointing fingers, even if they can’t directly link their projects’ opponents to China.
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… OpenAI also said the impact of the influence campaign appeared limited and its social media posts didn’t get much traction. “This was not a case of an influence operation creating a debate. The debate existed already. This was an influence operation from China trying to interfere in it. We didn’t see any signs that they succeeded,” said Ben Nimmo, who leads threat investigations at OpenAI, on a call with reporters.
The allegations that some activists are being directly financed by China come amid a rising wave of anti-data center sentiment: a recent Gallup poll found that 71% of Americans somewhat or strongly opposed construction of data centers in their communities.
Despite that public opposition, the theory does appear to be gaining some traction in Washington. In a letter last week, Congressman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., the chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce called for a briefing on whether the U.S. government sees evidence for Chinese influence in the data center debate. The letter was addressed to FBI Director Kash Patel as well as David Sacks and Michael Kratsios, two wealthy tech investors who sit on President Trump’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (Sacks, who was until recently Trump’s special adviser on artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency, is also a regular host of All-In).
Despite that public opposition, the theory does appear to be gaining some traction in Washington. In a letter last week, Congressman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., the chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce called for a briefing on whether the U.S. government sees evidence for Chinese influence in the data center debate.
Translation: “Please provide some reasonable basis for us to claim that public opinion is a hoax perpetrated by a foreign power, so we can do whatever the fuck we want and make tons of money.”
The media campaigns have been massive. Even on Lemmy, 1/4 of the content is anti AI. Do you guys really think that’s organic?
As an organic who knows other organics, yeah?
Do you think the people booing AI at commencement speeches were Chinese?
Even on Lemmy, 1/4 of the content is anti AI. Do you guys really think that’s organic?
In response to 100% of products having AI shoehorned into them for no fucking reason at all? In response to people like Peter Thiel calling anyone who criticizes AI as “being in league with the Antichrist?” In response to countless examples of multinational corporations ramming their projects through in tiny ass towns against the wishes of all the residents? In response to electrical utility companies telling entire cities that they’re not going to supply them power anymore because they’re going to route it to data centers instead? Yes. Yes I do think it’s organic.
What’s your argument for people organically supporting any of the above bullshit? What do AI/LLMs offer your average person that outweighs all the negatives?
People really are that stupid
Nah, this just wealthy assholes who have a financial interest in this particular stupidity pretending to be really be this stupid
i don’t think they’re pretending, i think they see AI as actual intelligence because it is “smarter” than them…
turn on the news for five seconds to know that’s absolutely true.
If they want the data center so much let them build it in China
That’s literally what their goal is, yes.
I do not understand people who think everything that is happening in international politics is all at the surface level.
This type of action is one of the modern evolutions of war. China absolutely wants dominance in AI, they know how powerful a tool/weapon it can be. They will happily fund propaganda in other countries to improve their odds of winning the race.
Their infrastructure investments into other countries that give them leverage over resources, propping up Russia against Ukraine, hosting North Korean cyber espionage groups, threatening Taiwan, buying up companies, international real estate. The list goes on and on.
China has it’s fingers in everything. They want to become THE world superpower. They know they can’t fight their way to the top with military might anytime in the near future, so they’re investing in damaging the capabilities of western countries and propping up their own influence.
They’re actually doing a pretty good job of it too.
I’m sure the western countries are trying to do the same to China, but it’s hard to influence the Chinese population directly when China locked down most of the communications channels internally. They aren’t stupid.
How does it benefit China to have all the data centres? It’s literally doesn’t matter where they are built.
Capacity = capability. It allows them to build better models and run inference.
Other than openai and anthropic, all of the other top models right now are Chinese. That’s just the ones we know about too.
The US datacenters aren’t going to be selling capacity to the Chinese government and military.
Maybe NVIDIA is renting chinese troll farms now. After all they are the absolutely only one making money with this stupid AI bubble.
