How attackers can manipulate social media recommendations

Recommendations based on AI are something we encounter all the time. From shopping sites, streaming services and social media we're constantly shown stuff that the AI thinks we'll like. But how easy would it be for an attacker to manipulate these recommendations to promote conspiracy theories or spread disinformation? Andy Patel, a researcher with cyber security company F-Secure's Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence, recently completed a series of experiments to learn how simple manipulation techniques can affect AI-based recommendations on a social network. Patel collected data from Twitter and used it to train collaborative filtering models (a type of machine… [Continue Reading]