Using AI to spread rumors in batches, a water army gang controlled 114 accounts to hype rumors and gain profits

2024/5/15 21:58:03 Source: IT Home Author: Qingyuan Editor in charge: Qingyuan

IT Home On May 15, according to the news of CCTV News and Case Focus of Shanghai Radio and TV Station, the Shanghai Cyberspace Office recently announced the typical case of the 2023 "Qinglang Pujiang River" Cyber Ecological Governance Special Action. Including the incident of "4-year-old children lost in Shanghai", Rumors such as "the child is not born to his father" and "this year is the second time he has been lost" appear on the Internet

It is reported that during the National Day holiday last year, the incident of "4-year-old girl getting lost on the beach of Nanhui New Town in Shanghai" attracted the attention of the whole network. During this period, comments such as "the lost girl was once abandoned" and "the father of the lost girl was the stepfather" frequently caused heated discussion among netizens, and some online accounts even concocted conspiracy theories, causing personal attacks. After verification, These information are rumors

After the incident, Pudong police quickly issued a police briefing, informing the progress of the incident and the investigation, and issuing information to dispel rumors to clarify the facts. The Shanghai Municipal Cyberspace Office and the public security network security department strengthened the monitoring of online rumors, urged the platform to deal with them, and curbed the spread and influence of rumors. After investigation, in this incident, There is a rumor mongering gang of water army who illegally made more than 40000 yuan by registering online accounts in batches and forwarding speculation

The report disclosed more information about this water army group - false posts were published by more than ten We Media accounts, such as "Cancer Talk Entertainment" and "Fanquan Entertainment". After further investigation, it was found that the account registrants were employees of an online technology company in Shandong, who had registered accounts on various platforms, Focusing on other national social hot spots, we frequently post and reprint posts, and issue false negative information in the form of "shock", "headline party", "eye-catching", etc

According to Zhang Lin, a police officer of the Internet Security Corps of Shanghai Public Security Bureau, the company's top management is Mr. Li, the legal person of the company, and Mr. Tian, the manager, who organized six core writers, including Mr. Zhou, in this hot event, Select hot spots and use AI to mass produce false posts , and organized 30 employees to post a large number of posts through the platform account issued by the company, Totally 114 online accounts were controlled, and 268 related posts were continuously published Only from October 4 to 9, we received more than 40000 yuan in posting revenue.

On October 11, 2023, under the unified command of the Ministry of Public Security, the special team went to Shandong to catch the gang together with the local police. At present, 12 members of the gang have been transferred for prosecution according to law , all relevant network accounts involved in the case have been banned.

According to the previous report of IT Home, the Ministry of Public Security announced 10 typical cases of cracking down on online rumors, illegal crimes in April this year, Four of them involved the use of AI to spread rumors.

Since December last year, the Ministry of Public Security has deployed the national public security organs to carry out the special action to crack down on online rumors. So far, the public security organs have investigated more than 80000 online rumor clues, investigated more than 10000 online rumor cases, captured more than 1500 criminal suspects, imposed administrative penalties on more than 10700 people, and carried out more than 4200 public denials of rumors.

In recent years, AI and other new technologies have reduced the cost of rumors. In 2023, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Ministry of Public Security jointly issued the Guiding Opinions on Punishing Cyber Violence Crimes in accordance with the Law, The situation of "publishing illegal information using generative AI technology such as' deep synthesis'" will be severely punished according to law

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