Description: Purported AI bots reportedly submitted 90,835 fraudulent responses to a UK government consultation on tobacco and vaping, mostly opposing disposable-vape restrictions. The submissions made up 76% of responses and distorted the apparent balance of public opinion. The Department of Health and Social Care excluded them from its analysis. The operators and underlying AI technology were not identified.
Editor Notes: 10/12/2023-12/06/2023: consultation period; exact bot-submission dates are unknown. 01/29/2024: the government response documented and excluded 90,835 automated submissions; used as the incident-date fallback. 10/27/2026: AI-bot involvement was reported. The operator and underlying technology are unidentified.
Entités
Voir toutes les entitésAlleged: AI-assisted public consultation response generator developers developed an AI system deployed by Information manipulation actors, which harmed Department of Health and Social Care , Government agencies , Governments , Government of the United Kingdom , Epistemic integrity et Public consultation integrity.
Système d'IA présumé impliqué: AI-assisted public consultation response generators
Statistiques d'incidents
ID
1790
Nombre de rapports
1
Date de l'incident
2024-01-29
Editeurs
Daniel Atherton
Rapports d'incidents
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AI bots flooded a government consultation with tens of thousands of fake responses in a failed attempt to stop the UK’s ban on disposable vapes.
Three-quarters of all the responses to the 2023 consultation on the tobacco and vapes bill were…
Variantes
Une "Variante" est un incident de l'IA similaire à un cas connu—il a les mêmes causes, les mêmes dommages et le même système intelligent. Plutôt que de l'énumérer séparément, nous l'incluons sous le premier incident signalé. Contrairement aux autres incidents, les variantes n'ont pas besoin d'avoir été signalées en dehors de la base de données des incidents. En savoir plus sur le document de recherche.
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