Una nuova ondata di storie false su restrizioni alle libertà personali e tasse fasulle accumula milioni di visualizzazioni sui social media – Full Fact
https://fullfact.org/politics/fake-stories-uk-government-policies-still-viewed-millions/
di coffeewalnut08
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The amount of this sort of stuff I see coming out if AI Mills is somehow worse than I expected, my Nan is endlessly on videos that bang on about “the truth” of “Harry and Megan”.
Outside of politics I have noticed an uptick in videos that involve obese women acting entitled, often being “owned”, it feels nefarious for reasons I can’t put my finger on. I’ve noticed that they have started mixing these AI videos with other non-AI reaction memes.
It would help if the government would stop putting ideas out that sound like fake news. When they start talking about age gating VPNs, it is hardly surprising that people give credence to the idea that the government might ban them altogether. Because age gating seems unlikley to work, so it would be an obvious next step in that road to nowhere.
Also the double speak on digital ID. Starmer simultaneously saying the nobody will be forced to have one, but also that you will need one to get a new job. So anybody who needs to work and doesn’t manage to keep their current job for the rest of their life will absolutely need one. Not to mention anyone who runs their own business, which already needs one. It is little wonder that people believe other stories about digital id that are, honestly, no less credible.
It’s so easy now, primarily because Labour have kind of set the groundwork for it already (protest arrests, Online Safety Act, digital ID etc) and got people riled up about authoritarianism.
Particularly for people that are never going to fact check these things anyway and only get their news from Facebook/Twitter, if you’re a bad actor with vested interests in causing friction literally all you need to do is hire some bot groups or AI content farms and make some shit up.
I see so much of this crap on TikTok, constant ragebait from accounts most likely based abroad
There was a rumour that ended up on YouTube that Labour would post-pone/cancel the next general election.
These people are morons.
Same as those who believe you’re not allowed to call Christmas Christmas because of the loony left, while the left is busy enjoying Christmas in whatever manner they wish
Sadly, we are being swamped by a tsunami of foreign-manufactured AI drivel, meticulously engineered to inflame, divide and degrade. The recent Sri Lankan debacle, along with the industrial-scale troll farms churning out synthetic outrage, should disabuse anyone of the notion that this is accidental. Rage, it turns out, is big business – and clickbait is its cheapest, sleaziest currency.
These people study our fault lines, pressure points and attempt to pour accelerants on them for clicks and ad revenue. Sometimes as a means of destabilization by malign regimes.
Education and increased user sophistication is the only defence in most cases.
In the 90s the internet looked like it would go on to be a wonderful tool of education and enlightenment where any person could instantly find out knowledge in seconds that would take them a significant amount of time to come by in the analogue world. It was easy to think the future would be so bright with near infinite knowledge at the fingertips of every person…. Unfortunately, we are seeing the fruits of the internet in an inverse way to how many pictured it; instead of being a tool to connect the masses to information it has also become a ridiculously effective way of connecting the wolves with the sheep.