Scams
Generating Harms - Generative AI's impact and paths forwards
Electronic Privacy Information Centre (2023)
Using AI systems to gain a personal advantage over others such as through cheating, fraud, scams, blackmail or targeted manipulation of beliefs or behavior. Examples include AI-facilitated plagiarism for research or education, impersonating a trusted or fake individual for illegitimate financial benefit, or creating humiliating or sexual imagery.
"Bad actors can also use generative AI tools to produce adaptable content designed to support a campaign, political agenda, or hateful position and spread that information quickly and inexpensively across many platforms. This rapid spread of false or misleading content—AI-facilitated disinformation—can also create a cyclical effect for generative AI: when a high volume of disinformation is pumped into the digital ecosystem and more generative systems are trained on that information via reinforcement learning methods, for example, false or misleading inputs can create increasingly incorrect outputs."(p. 3)
Part of Information Manipulation
Other risks from Electronic Privacy Information Centre (2023) (21)
Information Manipulation
4.1 Disinformation, surveillance, and influence at scaleInformation Manipulation > Disinformation
4.1 Disinformation, surveillance, and influence at scaleInformation Manipulation > Misinformation
3.1 False or misleading informationInformation Manipulation > Security
4.2 Cyberattacks, weapon development or use, and mass harmInformation Manipulation > Clickbait and feeding the surveillance advertising ecosystem
3.2 Pollution of information ecosystem and loss of consensus realityHarassment, Impersonation, and Extortion
4.3 Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation