The Race Against Adversaries: Embracing Technologies for Enhanced Securities

Overview
Explore the critical importance of law enforcement and intel professionals adopting and integrating emerging technologies. Discuss the risks associated with falling behind adversaries who leverage these technologies and the impact of security measures.

In this episode, Indago Founder and CEO, Buddy Jericho and Senior Intelligence Analyst, Heather Perez, discuss the adversarial and bad actors' use of language models in manipulating information and spreading propaganda. They highlight the challenges of manipulating language models and the constant need to update and train them. They cite examples of how language models are being manipulated, such as uploading PDF documents with new instructions for the model's operation. They also discuss the manipulation of content and the importance of configuring them securely. The conversation delves into the use of language models by terrorist groups, extremist organizations, and cybercriminals to spread disinformation, amplify malware and phishing attacks, as well as, recruit new members. The conversation emphasizes the need for law enforcement and intelligence professionals to understand and leverage AI tools to combat these threats.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Language models are constantly being manipulated by adversaries and bad actors to spread propaganda and manipulate information. 
• The manipulation of language models is different from traditional software applications and requires constant updates and training; a challenge at the pace technology is advancing. 
• Language models can be manipulated by uploading PDF documents with new instructions or by configuring APIs with read and write privileges. 
• Terrorist groups, extremist organizations, and cybercriminals use language models to spread disinformation, amplify malware and phishing attacks, and recruit new members. 
• Law enforcement and intelligence professionals need to understand and leverage AI tools to combat the manipulation of language models. 

SOUND BITES
"Deeps fakes are being used for disinformation, fraud schemes, propaganda, and AI-powered malware."

"Russian bot farms are using AI to run numerous fictitious accounts and create authentic appearing social media personas targeting the younger generation for recruitment."

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Chapters

• 0:21 Introduction and Overview
• 0:43 Current Landscape: How Language Models are Manipulated
• 10:33 Exploiting Language Models: Cybercriminal Chatbots and Propaganda
• 16:02 Combatting Language Model Manipulation
• 18:04 Getting to the Truth
• 27:00 Shift in Mindset - Default to Fake
• 31:23 Developing Countermeasures