"It's not just that you're perpetrating a fraud" by spreading bogus images, expert Hany Farid says. The fakes also sow confusion about an ongoing catastrophe.
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You should see the cesspool of disinformative pages popping up on Facebook now. Blatantly false headlines from a plethora of fake "news" groups blaring BREAKING! to promote false stories from the CA fires to "proof" the moon landing was fake to unhealthy diets touted as "now proven" to be superior.
My feed is overwhelmed by dozens of bullshit articles and loony conspiracy theory sites. Meanwhile the posts from accounts I follow that I see are 3 days to a week old or more.
I noticed it intensified within the last few months and there are crap load of ai accounts just posting ai content. But luckily for you you can turn that off! And then you will realize there is barely any action on fb anymore so this is why they do it. It’s all to fake engagement. They lost it.
MAGA "news" is dangerous and AI generated has no place here. After WWII the Allies shut down and took over Nazis radio, print and TV news. AI is the new Photoshop generated images. And will cost lives, property. Yelling fire in a theater, gone far beyond that.
The posters of lies and fraudulent fake AI images want to sew confusion and mistrust. I wouldn't be surprised if the creators of AI want the same. It's not an accident.
China could set off a nuke in San Francisco and there will be pockets of the internet saying San Francisco isn't real.
We've built megaphones for the lonely, the mentally ill, the trolls and those same megaphones happen to be great for state-sponsored propaganda. It feels impossible to contain.
And the images made to intentionally make the efforts to fight the fire look bad all seem to come from a specific political party. Hmmmm how about calling out the GOP cult spreading this misinformation.
I realize that’s a function of the platform cropping the bottom of the image, but the end result is a fraudulent image shared under your name. You’re lending your credibility to this, whether intentionally or negligently.
On my device, the sentence about "bogus images" appears above and below the bogus image. Also the sign in the bogus image has the wrong number of letters.
For the people who stop and read it, it quickly becomes clear. But the whole point is that resharing the images at all is a problem, let alone as an obvious "hey come click on my article" attention-grabber. Many people scroll by half-engaged, and only register "huh, Hollywood sign on fire".
It is obviously an AI image and anyone taking the time to read will realize that hollywood is not in fact burning (and hollywoodd is not a real place). That being said, the image is cropped on my screen and I'm on a desktop with a Ultra wide monitor.
That’s under the assumption that this country has high literacy. I’m guessing around, say, half would never notice. And we know who they voted for too.
how about we all agree, unless you're a journalist or an eye witness, don't post pics or videos of an ongoing catastrophe. even when it isn't fake, it's kinda messed up
I saw a BIGGER sign that—when viewed at a certain distance—eclipses the HOLLYWOOD sign. It says: TRAILERPARK. Didn’t photograph it because it seemed a bitter experience advertising warning
Did it perpetrate a rash of fraudulent images, or are we only noticing these images because Hollywood... the land that seemingly holds this elysian dreamstate for us; we protect more than others who have been targeted with fake images... I don't know the answer but I have suspicions. 😐
SO dangerous! Lives are going to be lost in the future because folks won’t know what’s real, what’s fake, and will make the wrong decisions based on made up BS.
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Republicans hate you and want you dead.
We've built megaphones for the lonely, the mentally ill, the trolls and those same megaphones happen to be great for state-sponsored propaganda. It feels impossible to contain.
You think it's chaotic now?
NPR’s mistake is thinking they care.
REPUBLICANS????!??