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A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy | Content generated by artificial intelligence has become a factor in elections around the world. Most of it is bad, misleading voters & discrediting elections (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Of course it is.

Fascists can create the illusions they need to convince morons whilst at the same time making them distrust reality ("nah that's AI")

A lot of people are going to suffer

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  • [+] -8 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Fascists can create

    We really need to get over this idea that it's only "fascists" using AI to push their ideology. In 2025 you'd be hard pressed to find any National Government, Political Party, or Ideologically based group who is not using a metric fuckton of AI bots to distribute AIGen content in an attempt to sway elections and opinions. The IPIE report on this makes it quite plain that at least 80% of elections worldwide had problems with this in 2024.

    At this point blaming this solely on "Fascists" is wilful blindness and a clear indicator that someone is either living in a bubble of single-sided information or is an ideologue themselves.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Did I say "only"?

    Fascists are the most dangerous and frankly, alarmingly flooding the internet with their shit right now

    "Magnitudes" is a borderline dangerous understatement of the difference in their output versus any other corner of political thought.

    Hyper targeted advertising on the internet means you categorically will not be seeing anything close to the worst of it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I wish you were right. I don't mind governments and political parties who aren't fascist. Democratic socialists and responsible environmentalists can AI-pump their ideology all they like and it's not going to do much harm to civilization. But if they are doing it at all, they're not doing it anywhere near the level that fascists and kleptocrats are. The latter benefit from radical change, and they are using AI to achieve that.

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