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None of that strikes me as meaningfully different than regular old propaganda.

• pixl97 3y ago
  Quantity and speed are qualities. Getting hit with a snowball could hurt you but is most apt to annoy you. Getting hit with an avalanche is apt to kill you. But hey, they are both snow, right?
  • redcobra762 3y ago
    However, it's unclear what plays the role of mass in this analogy.
    • Loughla 3y ago
      When it's one video of an angry mob killing bystanders, it's easy to dismiss. When it's hundreds, from different viewpoints, it's much harder.
      • redcobra762 3y ago
        ...so people are forging videos of mob justice? I'm not sure what your point is.
• baq 3y ago
  Computers are just fast calculators, right? Cars are just faster horses, right? Ships are just bigger canoes, right? Photographs are just quicker made paintings, right? Or… perhaps there is something different which makes practical what hasn’t been practical before? AI propaganda is the car of the propaganda horse of days past.
  • marcellus23 3y ago
    For all of human history, the only way to know how an event happened is to either have witnessed it yourself, or heard from someone else. It's only the last 100 years or so that we've been able to record exactly what happened as audio, video, or photography. And still, it's possible to doctor any of these. That's not to mention that you can craft excellent propaganda even by using this "real" recorded media, just by cherrypicking and presenting it in a certain context. I don't think AI generated media is going to a massive sea change in misinformation. edit: downvoters should reply instead