Putin's party enlists artificial intelligence
'United Russia' has announced that it will use ChatGpt and also Russian-made systems for its propaganda in this year's regional election campaigns. The goal: the 'suppression of threats' to prevent opponents from 'creating scenarios of an alternative future to ours'.
Moscow (AsiaNews) - Deputies of the Putinist 'United Russia' party have declared their intentions to use artificial neural network (Ann) data, mathematical models of artificial intelligence, in this year's regional election campaigns to simulate voter orientations.
The party's deputy secretary, Sergej Perminov, explained that this is intended to avoid the risks of 'demonisation' and 'satirization', which in the ideological language of the Putin edinorossians means the fight against foreign interference.
On 10 September, elections for governors in 21 federal subjects will be held on a unified day, including early elections for the uninominal seat in the State Duma in the Simferopol constituency in Crimea, plus other fragments of the electoral composition. According to Perminov, anyone who does not start using artificial intelligence now is doomed to defeat.
Therefore, all the Ann's already accessible processing will be applied, both in the field of forecasting and analysis, as well as for 'creative suggestions, including, for example, the technological assault, with which these systems align within seconds', and also for generating video-materials and propaganda images of various kinds.
The use of Ann's possibilities will also make it possible to attract new supporters, presenting party plans in the best possible way for each category and group of voters. They will be 'viral campaigns', in which there will be room for paradox, dramaturgy: 'we are doing the preventive analyses to broaden the forms of expression as much as possible,' Perminov confirms. Foreign neural technologies such as ChatGpt or Midjourney will be used, but also Russian-made systems such as Kandinsky's 'Sber'.
United Russia has already made agreements with various companies for this project, and this political season will be 'experimental', in function of next year's 'great presidential campaign', with Putin's umpteenth re-election, which will have to be presented as an apocalyptic triumph.
The content will have forms of 'additional humanisation', with double entendres and humour, direct experience, lively dialogue and new ideas. For the party it will be a 'gamble', in which the human intellect must not succumb to the anonymity of machines.
In addition to the benefits, the initiative is thus aimed at preventing the risks of using the Ann. Perminov's presentation lists at least a dozen risks, starting with the 'daily progress of the spread of artificial intelligence', including in communications with voters, nationally and worldwide. On the other hand, the risks of 'demonisation' and 'satirization' are linked to the avalanche of mud being poured on the party and the regime in an attempt to discredit it.
The 'suppression of threats' must therefore prevent adversaries from 'forming alternative scenarios of the future to ours', using more advanced technologies, based on the public's demand for ever faster information with guarantees of 'authenticity and confirmation', to the point of spreading a 'hallucination of reality'. The example of ChatGpt is very indicative, as a mechanism for preparing documents, modelling voters' reactions, systematising the most complex materials.
According to political scientist Mikhail Vinogradov, 'neural networks are as reliable as second-degree partners, they are not gurus or robots', and a verification of the possibilities of artificial intelligence is expected, rather than its use on a mass scale, which carries as many risks as its prohibition.
As the director of the company 'Promobot', Oleg Kivokurtsev, confirms, a shrewd use of these technologies will allow politicians to address their audiences with 'increasingly personalised messages', with an increasingly detailed analysis of people's needs, to become a real 'big brother' to them.
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