We need aggressive action against this. Urge every politician you can to make media literacy taught in school. Students must learn how to identify disinformation and propaganda.
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wuffah@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Get ready for the post-reality Internet. You think deepfake porn is bad? Wait until entire voting blocs are swayed by what AI trash their side puts out during that election cycle. They’ll even be aware that it’s AI fakery and they won’t even care. It’s already begun.
BoycottTwitter@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
jrs100000@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Somehow I dont think a class is going to fix this.
BoycottTwitter@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
Then what would?
jrs100000@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I dont know. Maybe its not fixable. Maybe democracy as we know it cant withstand contact with social media and AI any more than absolute monarchy could survive the printing press. Maybe it will get better on its own, as kids growing up with AI start to spot it the way people today spot CGI.
deHaga@feddit.uk 17 hours ago
Propaganda is hardly new.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Definitely not new, but the delivery of it has changed a lot, making it increasingly harder to identify as propaganda.
JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
This is already happening. I couldn’t stomach watching such slop, but immediately following the Bondi shooting and Ahmed al Ahmed was shown tackling the shooter, videos were circulating that replaced Ahmed with a middle aged white man, presumably because the correct footage flew in the face of the far right agenda of Australia having a Muslim problem.