Lee Foster

@leefosterintel.bsky.social

AI Security / Cyber Threat Intel / Disinformation / Influence Operations. Founder aspectlabs.ai, Adjunct at Johns Hopkins SAIS Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies, formerly Director of Influence Ops Analysis at Mandiant. All views my own etc.

This satirical deepfake of Zelensky begging for US aid and admitting to being a corrupt drug addict is going around. A deepfake-for-hire group made it. It has 3.6M views on TikTok, and big pro-Kremlin influencers like Aussie Cossack have shared it. It's a joke. It's also a way to launder disinfo.

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I’ve had a few calls recently with some criminally ambitious founders. “I want to use AI to do everything” “we take a systems level approach to AI” “AI is central to our design process” And the truth is I am so exhausted. Where did this boundless optimism come from?

This morning I had the pleasure of presenting to a closed group of Guatemalan journalists and government representatives at Universidad del Valle de Guatemala on responsible reporting around foreign influence operations

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Event Alert: Cyber Initiatives Group Summer Summit Tomorrow (June 28), CIG is holding its Summer Summit, full of panels on the latest in cybersecurity. Looking forward to speaking on the impact of cyber-propelled disinfo alongside Glenn Gerstell and Paul Lekas. Event is free and open to the public