Washington, United States: AI-generated videos purportedly depicting protests in Iran have flooded the web, researchers said Wednesday, as social media users push hyper-realistic deepfakes to fill an information void amid the country's internet restrictions.
US disinformation watchdog NewsGuard said it identified seven AI-generated videos depicting the Iranian protests -- created by both pro- and anti-government actors -- that have collectively amassed some 3.5 million views across online platforms.
Look after your loved ones, especially the youth. These platforms are designed to fuel dopamine addiction, to keep you looking at horrific things, to manipulate emotions. These algorithms, combined with this alarming amount of deepfakes is concerning, to say the least.
I think I have to share a proper reflection on my experience on having dropped from all socials and sourcing 99% of my news from SN.
I fully agree, but I think there is a slight silver lining here.
As we come to experience more and more AI generated reality, it will (hopefully) cause the average person to distrust "social media" more and more.
The retort for everything will be "its an AI fake!" - the upshot is we will suffer less from outsourcing our critical thinking skills to others and take more responsibility. Part of that will include a deeper focus on the things in our immediate control and pay less attention to things we can't personally verify.
That is the optimistic view.
If it is about foreign politics the media is probably 99% fake even without ai.
I remember call of duty videos in the news to show propaganda about how bad the russians are.
Psyop get a fuel with AI, boosted by algorithm platforms.
It really is a psyop. Nearly everything tody is a psyop.
The sad thing is that we get distracted by fake news while real news are not presented to us by mainstream media.
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