I’d assume the concern is more swaying public opinion, sowing division to make us incapable of unified political effort, or even to destabilize us, things like that, not so much infiltrating networks - they already manufacture much of that equipment.

If I understand correctly how it works, it’s a propagandist’s dream, building personalized psych profiles on each person. You could imagine that it’d be the perfect place to try generating novel videos to fit specific purposes, as well - the signals from this could feed back directly into the loss functions for the generative models.

I think politicians’ efforts to regulate tech are generally not great, but I think this one is pretty spot-on.

I think we are already cooked on unifying political effort and destabilization. We don’t need help from China on this.