Defense Dept to Crack Down on ‘Disinformation’ on Social Media with the Help of AI

The Department of Defense has contracted a New York-based AI company to deploy software to target “disinformation” on social media in “real time.”

US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) contracted Accrete AI to “predict and neutralize” harmful “viral disinformation” and “deep fakes” created by “AI-generated synthetic media,” claims the company’s CEO Prashant Bhuyan.

“Synthetic media, including AI-generated viral narratives, deep fakes, and other harmful social media-based applications of AI, pose a serious threat to US national security and civil society,” Bhuyan said.

“Social media is widely recognized as an unregulated environment where adversaries routinely exploit reasoning vulnerabilities and manipulate behavior through the intentional spread of disinformation.”

“USSOCOM is at the tip of the spear in recognizing the critical need to identify and analytically predict social media narratives at an embryonic stage before those narratives evolve and gain traction. Accrete is proud to support USSOCOM’s mission,” he added.

Bhuyan absurdly claimed AI was necessary to snuff out “disinformation” created by “competitors” and “disgruntled employees.”

“Companies are already experiencing significant economic damage caused by the spread of AI-generated viral disinformation and deep fakes manufactured by competitors, disgruntled employees, and other types of adversaries. We believe that the market for AI that can predict and neutralize malign AI-generated synthetic media is about to explode,” he added.

Of course, given all the information revealed by the Twitter Files, the true purpose of government censorship initiatives is not to fight malign “disinformation,” but to silence conservative viewpoints, such as it did with COVID, the 2020 election, the Ukraine war, the Hunter Biden laptop, and more.

Notably, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction in an ongoing lawsuit against the Biden regime in July prohibiting them from engaging in censorship practices against the American people.

Specifically, Judge Terry A. Doughty ordered the government to cease all communication with social media companies and third-parties to collude to censor online speech.

The Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits in establishing that the Government has used its power to silence the opposition. Opposition to COVID-19 vaccines; opposition to COVID-19 masking and lockdowns; opposition to the lab-leak theory of COVID-19; opposition to the validity of the 2020 election; opposition to President Biden’s policies; statements that the Hunter Biden laptop story was true; and opposition to policies of the government officials in power. All were suppressed. It is quite telling that each example or category of suppressed speech was conservative in nature. This targeted suppression of conservative ideas is a perfect example of viewpoint discrimination of political speech. American citizens have the right to engage in free debate about the significant issues affecting the country.

But given the Biden regime’s known proclivity for law-breaking, it’s almost guaranteed the government won’t heed the order of the court amid the ongoing lawsuit.

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