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It is very possible that foreign powers use AI to generate social media content in mass for propaganda. If anything, the internet up to 2015 seemed open for dis
by eastbound 1y ago
It is very possible that foreign powers use AI to generate social media content in mass for propaganda. If anything, the internet up to 2015 seemed open for discussion and swaying by real people’s opinion (and mockery of the elite classes), while manipulation and manufactured consent became the norm after 2017.
- rusk 1y agoThis is a pre-/post- Snowden & Schrems, which challenged the primary economic model of the internet as a surveillance machine. All the free money dried up and the happy clapping Barney the Dinosaur Internet was no more!
- kergonath 1y ago> It is very possible that foreign powers use AI to generate social media content in mass for propaganda. No need for AI. Troll farms are well documented and were in action before transformers could string two sentences together.
- amarcheschi 1y agoItalian party Lega (in the government coalition) has been using deep fakes for some time now. It's not only ridiculous, it's absolutely offensive to the people they mock - von Der leyen, other Italian politicians... -
- genewitch 1y agoQueen Ursula deserves to be mocked.
- karmakurtisaani 1y agoEven from an angle that destabilizes the EU and so directly benefits Russia?
- eastbound 1y agoYes. She’s not an elected representative. And she’s been utterly ineffective at threatening Russia with her soft stance (Yes, in war, strong words are weak actions). Her place is back in Hunger Games, starving everybody for the greater good of the elite class.
- genewitch 1y agoMy answer to this would be, i think: "well, if my mocking Ursula Von Der Leyen destabilizes the EU then maybe the EU shouldn't exist." right? pact of steel? anyone?
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