SOCOM To Deploy Argus AI To Scour Social Media For Disinformation, Misinformation And Malinformation

Authored by Sundance via The Conservative Treehouse,

Annnd… Here we go.  If you haven’t learn the background {Go Deep}, you’ll not have the suitable context to soak up the newest revelation about how the Dept of Defense will now conduct on-line monitoring operations, utilizing enhanced AI to guard the U.S. web from “disinformation” below the auspices of nationwide safety.

Gee, who would have predicted that U.S. web operations would all of a sudden have a very new set of enhanced AI guardians on the gateways? 👀

Read Carefully – Eyes Wide Open:

The US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has contracted New York-based Accrete AI to deploy software program that detects “real time” disinformation threats on social media.

The firm’s Argus anomaly detection AI software program analyzes social media information, precisely capturing “emerging narratives” and producing intelligence studies for army forces to speedily neutralize disinformation threats.

“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,” Accrete founder and CEO Prashant Bhuyan mentioned.

“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.”

But wait… It will get worse!

[PRIVATE SECTOR VERSION] – The firm additionally revealed that it’ll launch an enterprise model of Argus Social for disinformation detection later this 12 months.

The AI software program will present safety for “urgent customer pain points” in opposition to AI-generated artificial media, resembling viral disinformation and deep fakes.

Providing this safety requires AI that may routinely “learn” what’s most necessary to an enterprise and predict the seemingly social media narratives that can emerge earlier than they affect conduct. (read more)

Now, take a deep breath…. Let me clarify.

The objective is the “PRIVATE SECTOR VERSION.”  USSOCOM is the mechanical funding mechanism for deployment, as a result of the system itself is just too pricey for a non-public sector launch. The Defense Dept price range is used to contract an Artificial Intelligence system, the Argus anomaly detection AI, to observe social media below the auspices of nationwide safety.

Once the DoD funded system is created, the “Argus detection protocol” – the identify given to the AI monitoring and management system, will then be made accessible to the general public sector.  “Enterprise Argus” is then the industrial product, created by the DoD, which permits the U.S. primarily based tech sectors to deploy.

The DoD can not independently contract for the launch of an operation in opposition to a U.S. web community, due to constitutional limits through The Posse Comitatus Act, which limits the powers of the federal authorities in the usage of federal army personnel to implement home insurance policies throughout the United States.  However, the DoD can fund the creation of the system below the auspices of nationwide protection, after which enable the non-public sector to launch for a similar intents and functions.   See how that works? 

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