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from the Where-can-I-get-a-bot-to-work-my-farm? dept.
The Global Government Affairs team over at X dropped a bombshell Thursday night, revealing that the X Safety team had uncovered proof positive of a foreign influence campaign targeting the build out of AI and data centers in the United States:
It turns out that, after launching an investigation, the team uncovered a massive bot farm consisting of roughly 200,000 "suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts," including hundreds that appear to have been trying to manipulate debate in the U.S. over artificial intelligence, data centers, and the associated energy costs.
This development comes after President Trump warned last month that "other nations are trying to get us to slow down" and are spending money on "propaganda" to convince Americans that data centers aren't a positive thing.
According to X, about 200 accounts within the bot farm network were posting claims that data centers drive up household electricity prices and put excessive strain on the power grid. Some of the accounts, ironically, posted AI-generated cartoons depicting data center operators getting rich while ordinary American citizens were stuck paying the bill.
[...] The insidious thing about this kind of foreign influence operation is that it preys on the concerns that many Americans already have about the data centers popping up in their communities – debates about things like electric bills and the robustness of the power grid are already happening here. All a foreign adversary like China has to do is amplify those fears and sow distrust to make it harder for the U.S. to keep building out its AI infrastructure.
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(Score: 2) by ChrisMaple on Monday August 31, @02:33AM (4 children)
Promoting race problems has been a communist strategy for about a century. It became very obvious circa 1960.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31, @01:02PM (3 children)
Yeah, we were all getting along just great before then. I remember reading that blacks once enjoyed full lifelong employment back in the day.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31, @02:21PM (2 children)
That ended ~100 years before 1960. Only blacks have ever been oppressed on this planet and everything must be about them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31, @03:25PM
Top level AC here. Whoever you are, your buttons got pushed and now you're pushing other people's buttons.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31, @05:46PM
No it didn't. It just morphed into the American prison system. Read the 13th Amendment, Slavery 2.0
I don't care much about it, since whoever is in charge is going to act the same way. It's more of a class thing, the poor get beaten by the rich, color doesn't matter are much as social status, nobility and all that stuff.