c/canada · by Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org · 1y

China, Russia ‘very likely’ to use AI to try and disrupt next election: CSE

https://globalnews.ca/news/11069265/canada-election-cyber-threats-china-russia-iran-ai

China, Russia and Iran will “very likely” use artificial intelligence to try and disrupt Canada’s next federal election, a new assessment from the Communications Security Establishment Canada says, but are unlikely to undermine the overall integrity of the vote.

The annual report on cyber threats to Canadian democracy, released Thursday, said cybercriminals linked to those countries will most likely use generative AI tools and methods like deepfakes to spread disinformation “designed to sow division among Canadians and push narratives conducive to the interests of foreign states.”

Canadian politicians and political parties will likely be targeted with phishing scams and hack-and-leak operations to further sow discord, the report said.

“We assess that the PRC, Russia, and Iran will very likely use AI-enabled tools to attempt to interfere with Canada’s democratic process before and during the 2025 election,” the report from the CSE and its Canadian Centre for Cyber Security says, using the acronym for the People’s Republic of China.

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small44@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 1y (4 replies)

The USA will probably try too

HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Because they already did it to the US

small44@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Or maybe because trump want canadian politician that allow him to do whatever he want

HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

And how did trump get in power?…

small44@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

The two party system that make usa citizens keeping switching between the two party everytime they get disapointing. It was bound to happen that the worse of the worse get in power regsrdless of external interference

Showroom7561@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 1y

Why bother with AI when you can just post misleading and false ads on Facebook without breaking the law? /s

BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 1y (1 reply)

They already are. Look at the comment section of anything remotely political.

fourish@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

If it’s online/social media it’s all garbage anyway.

Comments worth nothing at all.

ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 1y

Get that AI slop away. I only support human created election disruption.

fourish@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I love that Canada’s election system is largely based on paper ballots and not electronic means (at least in BC).

It’s much harder (though maybe not totally impossible) to tamper with the process when it’s all being manually counted and tallied with many scruitineers from all parties watching the count and district reporting. Anomalies would be apparent very quickly.

The electronic system in the US Is pure garbage.

H4CK3RN4M3D4N63R570RM@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y

Agreed! Though I am worried the disinformation shared by these nations will nullify our paper ballot advantage.

Gloria@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

As it is tradition from Moscovia. Yuri Bezmenov in 1983 told us all we need to know.

but there are no news that it's mainly propaganda

subversion always a destructive

aggressive activity aimed to destroy the

country Nation or geographical area of

your enemy the highest art of warfare is

not to fight at all but to subvert

anything of value in the country of your

enemy until such time that the

perception of reality of your enemy is

screwed up to such an extent that it

does not perceive you as an enemy and

that your system your civilization and

your Ambitions look to the your enemy as

an alternative

That is the current state of the US.

United States is a receptive Target of

subversion the ultimate purpose the

final stage of subversion simply take

your enemy without a single shot being

fired this is basically what subversion

is it consists of four periods the first

stage of subversion is the process which

is called demoralization it takes from

say 15 to 20 years to demoralize a

society by 15 or 20 years this is the

time sufficient to educate one

generation influencing the Outlook

ideology personality by various methods

infiltration propaganda methods direct

contacts doesn't really matter various

areas where public opinion is formulated

or shaped

religion

educational system

social life

Administration

law enforcement system military and

labor and employer relations

what happens here

the target country if it's a free

Democratic Society there are many

different movements within the society

in every society there are people who

are against this Society they may be

simple criminals ideologically in

disagreement with the with the state

policy conscientious enemies simply

psychotic personalities who are against

anything right and finally they're a

small group of Agents of a foreign

Nation but

subverted

recruited in case of religion destroyed

ridicule it

replace it with various sex Cults which

bring people's attention as long as they

basically accepted religious Dogma is

being slowly eroded and taken away from

the Supreme purpose of religion to keep

people in touch with with the Supreme

Being that serves the purpose education

distract them from learning something