▲ 201 ▼ a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service (www.404media.co) submitted 1 year ago by Zak@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 27 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] bigchungus@piefed.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 year ago (2 children) Lakhani said Doublespeed doesn’t support “political efforts.” ...for the same price. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 child) And even if it's never political, so what? Someone uses it to promote a dangerous supplement, with thousands of fake, AI-generated videos of people taking it without issues, and suddenly a bunch of people buy it, take it, and suffer severe consequences, or even die. But good thing it's not gonna manipulate who you'd vote for amirite? Totally harmless! /s permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] bigchungus@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago Oh, I agree with you. My point was that they will probably support more political efforts than the spokespeople will have you believe. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 child) And even if it's never political, so what? Someone uses it to promote a dangerous supplement, with thousands of fake, AI-generated videos of people taking it without issues, and suddenly a bunch of people buy it, take it, and suffer severe consequences, or even die. But good thing it's not gonna manipulate who you'd vote for amirite? Totally harmless! /s permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] bigchungus@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago Oh, I agree with you. My point was that they will probably support more political efforts than the spokespeople will have you believe. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bigchungus@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago Oh, I agree with you. My point was that they will probably support more political efforts than the spokespeople will have you believe. permalink fedilink source parent