X claims it found a Chinese bot farm posting anti-AI data center sentiments

X found a bot farm in its investigation of inauthentic Chinese accounts. Out of 200,000 bots, 200 allegedly focused on posting against AI data centers. X claims it found a Chinese bot farm posting anti-AI data center sentiments.

News AI X claims it found a Chinese bot farm posting anti-AI data center sentiments The bots likely used ChatGPT to generate images for their campaign. The company announced its findings on its Global Government Affairs page. It said that 200 accounts out of the 200,000 were posting comic strips, images and text about AI data centers in a manner that "could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy." Specifically, their posts talked about how AI data centers can drive up the prices of household electricity and strain the grids of towns nearby.

They also posted AI-generated cartoons depicting data center operators as unscrupulous businessmen raking in profits from the facilities while average families shoulder the bill. X didn’t list the accounts involved in the troll farm, but it did post some examples on the platform. "We remain committed to maintaining an open and authentic platform where people debate topics of public interest," it wrote.

"We take seriously any attempts to undermine the integrity of the global town square and suspend accounts that violate our Authenticity policy." Based on the sample posts X shared, the inauthentic accounts used OpenAI to generate illustrations and talking points for their campaign. The same illustrations were in the report OpenAI published back in June about how accounts likely based in China used ChatGPT to generate anti-data center content.