How the UAE and MEK weaponize AI to spread propaganda

Somewhere inside Iran, a network of activists exchanged messages about politics and news with an activist — nicknamed “Parsa” — on the messaging app Telegram. They had no idea they were actually speaking to an AI agent that had copied the real activist’s style by training it on 8,400 real Telegram posts. Instead of “Parsa,” they were actually communicating with the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK), an Iranian Islamist-Marxist opposition group widely regarded as a cult.According to a

Source: Responsible Statecraft