Wasn’t me: CS Wandayi denies involvement in AI campaign praising him
Anthropic said Claude was used to create tweets that praised the CS’s work.
Cabinet Secretary Opiyo Wandayi has denied involvement in an artificial intelligence-driven social media campaign that allegedly fabricated praise for his work on electricity tariffs. The Kenyan energy and petroleum official told reporters on Saturday that the unverified reports alleging such activity had not identified the individual or group behind the alleged campaign.
He emphasized that millions of anonymous and coordinated social media accounts generate various political and commercial narratives daily, and the focus should be on evidence. The claims come after US tech firm Anthropic identified and disrupted a domestic Kenyan political astroturfing operation using its AI model Claude to generate coordinated political content.
The operation, which praised Wandayi over the cancellation of a scheduled Kenya Power electricity tariff hike and targeted the United Opposition, involved generating batches of exactly 50 tweets. However, Anthropic did not accuse Wandayi or the government of commissioning the campaign, stating there was no evidence of government involvement.
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