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

Idk about this. I think the main issue is social media and filter bubbles. Generative AI contributes, but enough fakes news is there anyways. People will also use real riot videos from 4 years ago and claim that's the LA riots. The Russian troll farms can do this with or without AI. Trump, too. They'll just come up with drinking bleach is good with their own brains.

I don't want to refute this. Generative AI accelerates it immensely and makes it easier and way more. But mind that the core of the problem is society, education and most of all social media.

Also this isn't exactly new, we had Cambridge Analytica since 2014 or something. And manipulating elections and politics by technology is even older than that.

Atoada so. I fuckin atoadaso.

Maybe people need to learn to not suck as bad, check their sources, ask questions like how do I know this is true?

Basic shit we should have learned long before we reach adulthood? 🤷

It is clear. AI is poison and pollution.

Oh wow! The incredibly easy and obvious prediction has come true?!

but...but... lemmy is far too small for such companies paid to post these things to go after. it would cost too much more for them to just type in a few more urls to post to, so it's ok, there's none on lemmy.

but...but... reddit is far too big for such companies to go after, they wouldn't dare. reddit admins/mods would catch it and block the users.

but...but... facebook wouldn't have such content because meta has so much money they can build like reverse AI that would find it and they'd be able to automatically detect it and remove it.

I read a scifi book where this was a plot line. I think everyone just distrusted whatever they read online eventually. Time to touch grass?

Liberal democracy was always a race of who could buy the biggest megaphone. Now they are worried that AI is making it even easier to fling shit and spin lies. Nothing however breaks because of AI, it was all about as dysfunctional as it could get before. What NYT and other legacy media is mostly worried about is that with AI psyops and fake news is becoming more and more democratized instead of an expensive top-down ordeal and for making harder for anybody to trust anything anymore, a trust that they relied on to control the narrative.

oh my goodness. who could have seen this coming.

Don't blame AI for human failings. This is on humans, not machines.

its too bad half the population is borderline mentally retarded and even the majority of the other half think theyre immune to propaganda and too smart to fall for disinformation.

Let AI run the government.

I'm honestly thinking that the only answer to AI misinformation slop is misinformation about everything. Republicans post misinformation slop like there is no tomorrow. Do the same thing back. It's quick, easy, cheap. Keep AI videos coming about how immigrants are saving puppies in the US or something.

It'll grind the internet to a point where almost everything is lies and bullshit and there will only be a very few places left where actual useful information can be found (hello Wikipedia!). This'll happen anyway but this will speed up the process.

With this, soon enough nobody will believe anything anymore. It's sad that we're there but that's the world we live in now.

What’s “Democracy”? I don’t know her.