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Information warfare and its limitations

The best days of information warfare are probably behind us

Information Warfare
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Illustration: Ajay Mohanty

Ajay Shah
The alleged exploits of Sanjay Rai Sherpuria highlight the place of information warfare in the modern world. Technological advances (WhatsApp, Facebook, and Twitter) have created a whole new world of possibilities for information warfare which many bad actors are exploiting. Authoritarian states are able to meddle in foreign countries through these tools, even without collusion with local actors. These problems are about to get a lot worse owing to improvements in machine learning and large language models (LLM) . There are many pathways to do better.

In a recent article in The Print, Ananya Bhardwaj tells the story of Sanjay Rai
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