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EJ Gibney
@EJGibney
Researcher of things.
Aug 1, 2023 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Seeing potentially a few hundred of these scam Bitcoin bots using Elon as a promo code. Not sure if the tools still exist to get a good read on total numbers.

Cc: @conspirator0 Image This was the search query used:
twitter.com/search?q=%22bi…
May 11, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
CNN made a horrible journalistic choice, yes. That said, last month The Daily Beast platformed a conspiracy theorist who convinced the author that an AI-generated image of a boy was a picture of his young daughter.

The Daily Beast also failed journalism.
medium.com/@EJGibney/how-… The conspiracy theorist convinced the author that the his Daily Beast colleague, Will Sommer, was an agent of disinformation and shouldn't be able to review the piece. The author agreed.

3 weeks later Will Sommer left The Daily Beast. ImageImage
May 10, 2022 • 21 tweets • 11 min read
On Apr 19, @nandoodles shared some information about an ad exchange called "Atlas5". It looked like the majority of their 8 employees used AI-Generated "StyleGAN" faces. I decided to do some digging.
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First, the basics. According to their LinkedIn and website, Atlas5 is an advertising company that uses AI to help publishers advertise.
Jul 12, 2021 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
Expanding on this network a bit:

The 99 accounts in this network have tweeted 14,600 times. 780 of those tweets contain media. All 780 are screenshots of fake tweets supposedly written by Elon Musk. But what's the motivation behind the fake tweets? Let's look.
1/ Here are the images. Elon Musk did not tweet any of these. Each of the 7 fake screenshots encourages users to google specific types of watches, they're apparently so great that you'd be thanking the fake Elon tweets "later".

DON'T GOOGLE THEM. I did it for you 🙂
2/
Apr 23, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The people behind these networks of bot accounts recognize that StyleGAN faces give them the power to mass-generate accounts that appear authentic. A small SEO botnet seems harmless but this same tech has been used by mega corporations and int'l govt's for propaganda campaigns. I know that I sound like a broken record, but we need to be educated on how to identify AI images en masse BEFORE the tech advances to the point of indistinction.

I'll include some recent examples of how this tech is being used in the next few tweets.
Nov 16, 2020 • 25 tweets • 9 min read
THREAD: An ongoing collection of articles documenting the use of artificially generated images with a focus on ThisPersonDoesNotExist.

If you're interested in learning how to spot AI-Generated images:
medium.com/@kcimc/how-to-…

graphics.reuters.com/CYBER-DEEPFAKE…

whichfaceisreal.com/learn.html ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com (TPDNE) was introduced in Feb 2019.

"This website uses AI to generate startling fake human faces"
Feb 14, 2019
cnet.com/news/this-webs…
May 25, 2020 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
Thread: On May 20, Breitbart threw some red meat to its readership. Pure outrage-bait. The article inspired 8,000 comments, 1,400 of which on @disqus, I spent a couple of days reading and documenting the response to this article. Here's what I found. 1/
@slpng_giants My focus was on the @disqus comment section. Disqus has a TOS for users and publishers called the "Basic Rules". First rule: "Hate speech and other forms of targeted and systematic harassment of people have no place on Disqus". Let's see how this goes. 2/
help.disqus.com/en/articles/17…
Feb 20, 2020 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
Last summer, a very determined and very angry individual created several dozen fake accounts explicitly to harass and intimidate me and others who often tweet to @slpng_giants.
AI-generated faces were used to make the accounts appear authentic. (1) It's not the first time that a person has been harassed on twitter dot com and I'm sure it won't be the last.

What's troubling is the tech. Untraceable faces of people who don't exist. The fake faces are meant to give the appearance of authenticity and it works. (2)
Oct 3, 2019 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
THREAD: I tend to take anonymous commenters with a grain of salt, particularly when they're contributing to the conversation on Breitbart but I feel it's important to draw attention to how Breitbart's audience has responded to the President's "Civil War" tweet.
@slpng_giants The comments in this thread were taken from the first 1/4 of the article's comments. I grabbed about 100 before needing to step away. It's disheartening and alarming to see an entire community drift toward violent extremism without seemingly any accountability.
Mar 21, 2019 • 13 tweets • 8 min read
THREAD: This past week, I ventured into the comments section of Breitbart’s article documenting the timeline of the mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand. In total, I collected about 500 comments. Roughly 10% of the total comments on the article. Here’s what I found. 1/ There were a few categories that dominated the comment thread. Twenty percent of the 500 comments collected expressed some form of joy or happiness over the results of the mass shooting where 51 people were murdered. 2/
Nov 1, 2018 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
Last week Breitbart announced planned legal action against @slpng_giants. In their statement, they believe SG made false claims about their content. I thought I'd take another dive into the Breitbart comment section to see how their content inspires and motivates hate. The article seen here was published yesterday (10/31) and it looks to have been an effective dog-whistle. In total, I documented nearly 100 comments from this article that would be classified as "targeted harassment" or "threatening content" according to @disqus TOS.
Oct 25, 2018 • 23 tweets • 8 min read
THREAD: Until recently, I worked hard using whatever free time I had to document and share thousands of examples of violent hate speech found beneath Breitbart articles. Breitbart has used their influence to steer their audience toward hate in a consequence-free environment. Here are several threads that I've put together over the past two years demonstrating the threats of violence and hate that I've found in Breitbart comments.

January 2018 - After reports of threats toward CNN
May 8, 2018 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
THREAD: On May 7 Breitbart published this article on @donaldglover’s video for “This is America”. The article quickly turned into a rallying cry for white nationalists in the comment section. 1/
@slpng_giants The article was actually a second try on the subject. A few hours earlier, Breitbart published a much more conservative headline and photo. Not entirely surprising that the article was revamped to reflect a clear dog-whistle and encourage engagement. 2/