Information & Ethics committee  That's an important question. I think it's important to start by just noting what we have seen with regard to AI-generated content from foreign interference operations so far, and here I would note that the use of AI-generated content is not new. Since 2019, we have identified CIB operations on our platforms that have used profile pictures generated by a technique called generative adversarial networks, also known as GAN profiles.

Information & Ethics committee  This is because when we see these operations...by the time they post this content, they will have left a lot of behavioural signals that we can still detect, and I'm happy to provide more information on that.

Information & Ethics committee  One thing I would highlight is that, as we noted in our latest transparency report earlier this year, we detected and removed a cluster of commenting activities from the influence operation known in the security community as “spamouflage” that targeted audiences in Canada. Researchers at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute have described that this operation's use of likely generative AI audio and doctored YouTube videos shared on other platforms “had zero or minimal engagement with real users.”

Information & Ethics committee  My name is Lindsay Hundley and I lead Meta's policy work on countering influence operations, both overt and covert. My work at the company draws on my nearly 10 years of experience as a researcher focused on issues related to foreign interference, including in my doctoral work at Stanford University and during research fellowships at both Stanford and Harvard.