Washington: When propaganda researcher Wen- Ping Liu looked into China’s efforts to influence Taiwan’s new election using false social media accounts, something strange stood out about the most effective profiles. They were adult, or at least that’s what they appeared to be. Fake information that claimed to be women attracted more attention, eyeballs, and impact than feigned female accounts. ” Pretending to be a woman is the easiest way to find credibility”, said Liu, an inspector with Taiwan’s ministry of justice.
It pays to be sexual, showing that despite technological advancement and its progress, the human brains remains surprisingly easy to steal thanks to age-old sex stereotypes that have moved from the real world to the online, whether it be Chinese or Russian advertising agencies, online scammers, or AI chatbots. ” You want to add some sentiment and comfort and a very easy method to do that is to get a person’s face and voice”, said Sylvie Borau, an online researcher in Toulouse, France, whose work has found that online users prefer “female” bots and see them as more people than “male” versions. According to Borau, women are generally perceived as warmer, less threatening, and more endearing than men. Men, meanwhile, are often perceived to be hostile. Due to this, many people may be more likely to be involved in a fake account that portrays as female, whether intentionally or not.
Scarlett Johansson, who claimed Altman told her that users would find her voice, which served as the eponymous voice assistant in the movie” Her,”” comforting,” when OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was looking for a new voice for the ChatGPT AI program. When the company adopted what she called an “eerily similar” voice, Johansson threatened to sue Altman. The new voice was put on hold by OpenAI.
Feminine profile pictures, especially those that depict women wearing revealing outfits, lush lips, and wide eyes, can be another online entice for many men. According to an analysis of over 40, 000 profiles, female social media profiles receive on average more than three times as many views as male ones. According to the research, female profiles that claim to be younger receive the most views.
There’s an even more obvious reason why so many fake accounts and chatbots are female, according to a report from the UN: they were created by men. According to the report, greater diversity in programming and AI development could result in fewer sexist stereotypes being present in their products.
