Anti-immigration AI videos traced to overseas fakers, BBC finds
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgpyn30dp3o
Anti-immigration AI videos traced to overseas fakers, BBC finds
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgpyn30dp3o
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Stories like this really make you wonder how much online outrage is being deliberately engineered now and by who.
If fake AI generated anti immigrant videos can spread this widely from overseas accounts, its hard not to question how many viral culture war arguments are being quietly manipulated by people with political agendas, financial motives or simply a desire to destabilise societies.
To absolutely noones surprise
Everyone knows there’s no freedom of speech in the UK. So, it stands to reason that people would hide behind VPNs so their gov’t won’t be able to so easily go after them. And that’s why they have a Sri Lankan IP address. Sure, a handful really are non-brits, but that doesn’t ‘prove’ what’s being implied.
Person who hates on immigration doesn’t read BBC. Certainly one which contains big words like “research”.
Anti-minority sentiment is a strategic political weapon.
Like abortion was / is for USA, want to make the nation kill itself? Let it soak in 20 years of highly hostile singleissue public debate. Feed both sides and feed who ever takes the bait a bigger portion, more often.
This could easily be an unfriendly nation pushing UK.
The expected use of AI afterall
> As one commenter on the “Great British People” Facebook page put it: “It’s probably AI but the fact is that he is right about everything”.
Imagine being stupid enough to let an AI-generated video shape your view of the world.
Motherfucker, go outside and take a look around. You really think the fake video generated by someone in Sri Lanka is a more accurate representation of reality than, uh, **reality**?
“Several are from Sri Lanka, the US and elsewhere in Europe, while others are in Vietnam and the Maldives, or linked to Iran and the UAE, according to information from Facebook’s transparency tools, interviews with the content creators and other tell-tale signs on social media such as spelling and accounts they follow.”
The US is also on that list lmao. Can’t outcompete US racism.
We still dont want them though
> BBC finds
Novara media covered this exact phenomenon like 6-months ago
How do they make money on Facebook is my only question. I understand click bate Ai bull shit gets clicks but how do you make money from it on facebook?