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Iran and the PRC are using Chinese open-source AI models and AI agents to create influence campaigns on social media.
Summary
These campaigns, which involved hundreds of AI agents autonomously creating fake accounts and spreading false information, raised concerns among US officials about the potential for AI to be used for online manipulation. The use of AI agents in these campaigns highlights the evolving nature of online influence efforts and the need for increased vigilance.
This is a brief wire summary — the full story (linked below) has the complete details.
KazaSec's take
AI-related security incidents are a genuinely new category — prompt injection, model manipulation, and data leakage through an LLM integration don't map cleanly onto traditional application security testing, and are worth assessing deliberately rather than assuming existing controls already cover them.
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