Fake war footage is a problem as old as social media. AI has just supercharged it.
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Twitter Will Stop Paying People for Sharing Unlabeled AI-Generated War Footage
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https://www.404media.co/x-will-stop-paying-people-for-sharing-unlabeled-ai-generated-war-footage/
darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Why the fuck were they paying people to share disinformation to begin with?
Flying_Penguin@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
To get Dump back in office
Iconoclast@feddit.uk 3 hours ago
Nobody’s paying them specifically for sharing disinformation. They’ve been paid for driving engagement as content creators. The whole point of the article is that the platform is stopping payments to these people precisely because they’re spreading disinformation.
Platforms letting creators in on ad revenue generated by engagement with their content isn’t exactly a new thing. But if you then switch to spreading lies for profit, of course they should get kicked out of the program.