One of the great fears of modern times is that generative AI systems are giving malicious actors unprecedented power to lie, manipulate and steal on a scale previously unimaginable and that this will undermine our systems of trust, democracy and society.
Examples abound of from election interference to the mass-production of fake reviews. Indeed, it’s easy to imagine that these are just a small fraction of the insidious endeavor currently undermining our way of life.
The truth is more nuanced of course but it raises the broader question of how to better understand these malicious AI techniques, where they are being applied, by whom, on what scale and for what purpose.
Now we get an answer of sorts thanks to the work of Nahema Marchal at Google DeepMind and Rachel Xu at Google Jigsaw and colleagues, who have studied the misuse of generative AI and the way it has evolved ...
