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[–] 22 points 8 months ago (2 children)

"If people saw it and they immediately knew it was fake, then they would just scroll. The selling point of generative AI models is that they look real," RadialB tells me over the phone. He refuses to share his real name but reveals he is in his 20s and from the north-west of England. He has never been to Croydon.

Social media was a mistake. The "creator economy" was a mistake. Everything was a mistake. We really fucked up.

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

    Terfing ideas with fabricated disinformation. What worries me is I know it works on the media illiterate.

    There's is currently an attempt to destabilize the EU to segregate and popularize hate and allow fascist talking points "for your safety"

    Protect your neighbors.

    Edit: disinformation vs misinformation.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    This would be disinformation.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Is there an intuitive way to tell the difference?

    I tried to think of other places where dis- vs mis- is used, but we only ever seem to use one:

    • miscommunicate vs discommunicate
    • misinterested vs disinterested
    • misunderstood vs disunderstood
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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago*

    Misunderstood ia when you thought you understood something but accidentally did not. Disunderstood is when you understood something but pretend that you didn't.

    Missinformation is when someone publishes information that is incorrect due to a mistake, such as believing outdated or retracted research, disinformation is when you publish information that you know is false with the intention of deceit.

    In both cases the information is false, the only difference would be the intention of the publisher.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    Midterm elections coming up in 9 months, that's why. Gotta scare the feeble-minded geriatrics and low-information mouthbreathers.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Of course they have. Pearl clutching Americans believe them because they have no frame of reference. The believe everywhere is as bad as the shithole they live in.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago

    I agree, but to be fair, this is not a new problem, nor is it one limited to the US.

    I'm from Austria, and during the London riots (IIRC, that was in 2010 or 2011) I lived in the UK.

    My parents frequently sent me news articles and snippets from TV news about things happening in the UK, and it was constant horror stories, almost apocalyptic. They claimed that all of UK was in riot and specifically also mentioned the area where I lived in.

    In fact, all that I noticed of the riots was one peaceful demonstration on one afternoon and that was it.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    BBC spewing propaganda as always..

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    [–] 24 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    And stupid yanks choose to believe them

    They want other countries to be shitholes like 'Murica so badly because they can't handle the fact that the rest of the world doesn't want to be America, we don't want them to be involved in our lives, and we just want them to fuck off and sit in the corner to drink wallpaper paste and eat crayons

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    I live only about 1 hour outside of a city that has received these sorts of fake videos online. My coworkers and neighbors believe them. They're actually scared. They insist they need a gun for protection if they need to go to the city. A city they refuse to travel to. Because the TikTok videos are too scary. Seriously. And it's only gotten worse over time. They believe the city is literally burning down with roaming gangs everywhere.

    This is the same playbook and it's being run across the globe.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I've had yanks talk about knife crime, like it's a justification for their obsession with firearms

    The worst places for knife crime in the UK pale in comparison to the average knife crime rates in cities in the US

    And then there's the general assault stats

    The US is more dangerous across the board than the UK

    I live in paradise, where shoplifting just about makes the front page. I don't lock my house up. I have absolutely zero fear of someone breaking into my place

    I've had Americans tell me that they wouldn't feel safe living here, because they'd be worried that people would see it as an easy target for crime

    Fear is so ingrained that they seem to need it

    I suspect that it's because they can use fear to justify hate, and they really like hating over there.

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago

    The people targeted by videos of places in the UK most Americans don't even know exist aren't Americans. You're delusional if you think the same sort of reactionary racist Boomers who eat this shit up in the US don't exist all across Europe.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago*

    The problem isn’t just Americans.

    In January, pollster YouGov released new data suggesting a majority of Britons now believe London is unsafe

    This rubbish is spreading across the entire country and fuelling right-wing political discourse.

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