AI makes it cheap and easy to create propaganda at scale.

The logical end of the ‘Solution to bad speech is better speech’ has arrived in the age of state-sponsored social media propaganda bots versus AI-driven bots arguing back

  • The Snark UrgeEnglish
    40•9 months ago

    After WWII in Germany, the cool young people knew you couldn’t trust anyone over 30.

    Nowadays, cool people need to understand that you can’t trust anything bland and sanitized-sounding on the internet. For the rest of our lives, your personhood is on trial with everything you say.

    It could tear society apart before we even know it’s happening.

    • theodewere
      9•9 months ago

      For the rest of our lives, your personhood is on trial with everything you say.

      bravo, man really well said

    • @etuomaala@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      4•9 months ago

      This was why I was so furious about Elon Mask’s blue checkmark debacle. He had a chance to prove that a gigantic part of the internet was a) human and b) non-duplicate. I was really shocked by how badly an apparently smart person fucked it up. Not so smart, it turns out.

      • The Snark UrgeEnglish
        4•9 months ago

        EM loses the ability to infuriate you when you understand him as a narcissist.

    • Aa!English
      2•9 months ago

      Nowadays, cool people need to understand that you can’t trust anything bland and sanitized-sounding on the internet.

      This is bad news for my communication style.