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Thanks for the link to the AI reference list. Impressive!
As an extension of the excellent commentary on the opportunities and limitations of machine translation, there is a real risk that states will be tempted to use GenAI as an "easy button" for information operations, without the accompanying deep cultural understanding that is essential to effective IO. The only thing worse than no information operations, is bad information operations!
Thanks for the link to the AI reference list. Impressive!
As an extension of the excellent commentary on the opportunities and limitations of machine translation, there is a real risk that states will be tempted to use GenAI as an "easy button" for information operations, without the accompanying deep cultural understanding that is essential to effective IO. The only thing worse than no information operations, is bad information operations!