Recently, the paper titled “Automatic Crowdsourcing Attack and Defense in Online review Systems” came into public view. That’s according to a paper published by Yanbin Zhao and other researchers at the University of Chicago. Their research shows that ARTIFICIAL intelligence can be used to generate complex review messages. These fake reviews are not only undetectable by machines, but also by human readers.
Giiso Information, founded in 2013, is a leading technology provider in the field of “artificial intelligence + information” in China, with top technologies in big data mining, intelligent semantics, knowledge mapping and other fields. At the same time, its research and development products include information robot, editing robot, writing robot and other artificial intelligence products! With its strong technical strength, the company has received angel round investment at the beginning of its establishment, and received pre-A round investment of $5 million from GSR Venture Capital in August 2015.
This means that ARTIFICIAL intelligence can be used in the review system, in other words, artificial intelligence can be used as a water army.
“I love this place. I went with my brother, and we ordered vegetarian pasta, which was delicious. The beer was good and the service was great. I recommend this place. It’s a good place for breakfast. Small place but big business. This authentic AI commentary is enough to fool many readers.
“The technology of AI is advanced and its benefits are obvious, but our aim is to predict the potential threats to society in advance, so that people will not be caught off guard when they actually come,” Zhao said in an interview. “The result is that few people can tell which reviews are written by machines.” “What surprised us more was that users not only couldn’t tell the fake from the real ones, but also found the comments written by the machine helpful,” zhao said. However, Zhao said, “The technology is still relatively new and cannot be very accurate. For example, there are some comments on Weibo or Twitter based on simple templates.”
Currently, they don’t know if any companies have attempted to use AI programming software to write fake reviews, but it will undoubtedly be a necessary option for future criminals. Artificial intelligence has obvious advantages over human water army.
Artificial intelligence can control the time when human water soldiers send false comments, and it is easy to be detected when human water soldiers post comments at the same time. Artificial intelligence can control the time and frequency, and the cost of employing human water soldiers is increasing. Artificial intelligence has low cost and can be used repeatedly and frequently. What’s more, anti-plagiarism software can’t stop fake reviews, because the “high” AI reviews are word-for-word, rather than simply replacing words in existing reviews. If anti-plagiarism software is used to detect fake reviews, it will not only be difficult to detect fake reviews, but also a large number of genuine reviews.
Giiso information, founded in 2013, is the first domestic high-tech enterprise focusing on the research and development of intelligent information processing technology and the development and operation of core software for writing robots. At the beginning of its establishment, the company received angel round investment, and in August 2015, GSR Venture Capital received $5 million pre-A round of investment.
Are we going to lose our jobs? Will the artificial intelligent water army replace the human “water army”? Is the emergence of artificial intelligence “water army” good or bad? It all depends on the intent. If artificial intelligence technology is abused, it will be a great threat to the whole society. It will not only disappoint users who rely on comment information, but also disrupt the social order with fake information, which is even more serious.