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    Overseas fakers using AI videos to push a narrative of UK decline, BBC finds

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    3. Rumpled_Imp on

      The true decline is the Western hemisphere’s goose-stepping towards neo-feudalism, not some invented implementation of sharia law.

    4. arenaross on

      Someone needs to study the lack of critical thinking in anyone over the age of 50 in this country. I’m convinced Facebook is just as damaging for that generation as Tiktok is for teenagers.

    5. Nuthetes on

      And thick as pigshit right-wing fall for it hook, line and sinker. Largely because they want it to be true because it gives them more of a reason to be angry and hateful.

      Nobody hates the country more than self-proclaimed patriots.

    6. Archistotle on

      The amazing thing is there’s people who **live in this country** that actually believe it.

    7. Fantastic_Back3191 on

      What do they think will change- we’ve been moaning about our little island for over two thousand years. Any one else is an amateur at it.

    8. Present_Pepper on

      This is a major issue and needs to be addressed. Instead of the online safety act there should be something along the lines of an online transparency act. All social media accounts should show the country of origin, all ai videos and photos need to be massively branded as such so it becomes undeniable.
      At this rate democracy will fall world wide just because billionaires want more money. Sickening really

    9. RDHertsUni on

      Getting convinced that your country is shit and baited into getting angry at immigration… by someone in Sri Lanka.

    10. SatchSaysPlay on

      Love to see it, you’re definitely doing something right when the clowns are deliberately trying to paint a very different picture.

      It’s like hatred from Russia or nonsense statements from Trump – obviously the UK are winning.

    11. PJBuzz on

      Yeah been going on a while now.

      All you have to do is watch comments from famous American streamers and they have you believing large parts of the UK are basically war zones.

      They didn’t even need the AI videos, it’s just become the default opinion that is accepted in some of these circles.

    12. Bugatsas11 on

      As an expat in London I was so disappointed when we were not stabbed in the first 5 minutes.

      Now 5 years later and I have not been stabbed yet. What the hell is going on?

    13. Fatkante on

      It’s time social media algorithms , propaganda and AI made part of curriculum from primary school

    14. ChiefRetardAssessor on

      Well, for the last 20 years we’ve had the lowest standard of leadership. Chancer after chancer, completely unfitting of the office, closets full of skeletons, strings pulled by evil characters, it’s been a shitshow.

      Tax wealth, imprison tax evaders, proscribe zionism, and imprison anyone with ties to zionism and the farce ends tomorrow. Under those conditions, we would become a truly great nation.

    15. yubnubster on

      So much YouTube shit out there focusing on the UKs decline, chaos, impending civil war, impossibly high crime, economic collapse.. I must have watched something related at some point, for the algorithms to push the content at me.. But it took a lot of ignoring it before it went away.

    17. Ok_Net4562 on

      Bbc doesnt neet to find. Its everywhere. Itd probably even on the ppst under mine in this sub

    18. arabidopsis on

      And this is why the government should legislate that any political messaging has to say if it used AI for any of it.

      Make it a big bold box at the top of the screen saying “AI GENERATED MEDIA”, and for parties who are found to breach it, they should have to play apology videos of the same length and cost of the message pulled.

      ..and not make it judged by OfCom, but Electoral COmmission instead.

    19. ChocoRamyeon on

      This is a huge problem but I can’t see it going away. Trump didn’t have Zuckerberg and Musk aligned with him at his inauguration for no reason. Social media is slowly becoming lost to opportunist scammers living outside the UK running the country down. They have no answers to the questions out country faces, just hate.

    20. hungry4nuns on

      “Fakers” seems like such a meek term for this. I’d have gone with political terrorists engineering the destruction of democracy.

      Saying “fakers” is along the lines of “Certified rotters are trafficking women and children for the sexual gratification of the naughty elite”. Nobody can argue that the statement is technically incorrect but why is the title so watered down, in an almost childlike fashion

    21. dharmajati on

      Can police do something about this? They are stupid nazi wanna be but the thing they done can misleading our young people.

    22. Various_Good_6964 on

      I was unavoidably shoulder surfing a chap on the train this morning scrolling through his Youtube homepage and ***every single video*** was some kind of AI thumbnail slop about Trump, Musk, Tommy R, Farage… Every video. People’s brains are being deliberately poisoned and manipulated and they simply do not realise, or care.

      I can’t understand how people are happy to sit and absorb this hate content non stop, all day long. It must just make them miserable 24/7?

      But how do you fix it? You can’t enforce control over what media gets spewed out because at that point you’re just as bad as the foreign bots and you become their enemy because “it’s all about control”. Is this generation just doomed and already brainwashed? Do we just have to start educating kids these days about content algorithms and foreign manipulation and hope that they grow up with an ability to recognise this kind of thing?

      People are starting to realise the extent of what’s happening but honestly I don’t think people truly see just how fucked we are. This is likely the beginning of the end for the prosperity of the west, things are only going to get much worse.

    23. HaggisPope on

      Thing is, why would you need to lie much? Some aspects seem obviously terrible 

    25. Momo-Velia on

      BBC, that edits and publishes content with clear narratives and bias makes claim that it’s foreigners making fake content about foreigners being the cause of UK decline.

    26. mpanase on

      Should there be a law forcing all social media to show the country each user is in?

    27. Eddie_Honda420 on

      Yeh it’s aimed at making people more right wing and breeding discord , it’s propaganda, it’s not a new thing that bbc just discovered lol

    30. Sinocatk on

      The UK is in decline, I’ve seen it with my own eyes. It’s terrible. The only thing propping up economic growth recently has been mass immigration. People are worse off than they were 10-15 years ago.

      Successive disasters in policy and government have led it to the point people think reform are somehow going to magically make things better. It will only get worse.

    31. borez on

      The narrative of decline. And the narrative of division.

      I’ve been saying this about Labour since the day they were elected ( I’m not saying their own messaging hasn’t been awful because it has ) but there’s been a target hate campaign all over social media since the day they were elected. All you have to do is follow the hashtags eg Liebour, Rachael Thieves, starmergeddon, StarmeTtraitor, Starmer out, KeirPressure, TheGreatResettlement, TwoTierKeir, RedTapeRedParty, TaxpayerTraumaTeam the list goes on and on.

      All over social media. People read this, follow the sentiment and suddenly we have a whole bunch of people who don’t know better piling on and saying the same thing.

      It’s massive outside manipulation of our democracy. I won’t even comment on who could possible be funding this, but whoever it is they want division in this country, and they’re succeeding.

      I’m not going to even get into the rise of Reform, or the kind of hate now being thrown at the Greens.

      It’s need addressing by Gov, but here in lies the rub, you can see the anti gov hahstags and hate now if they try and address it.

      Awful time for politics here though, and I say this as someone who’s getting on about now and has seen Gov come and go here.

      /sorry for the rant. But it needs to be said.

    32. MultiMidden on

      If the stuff comes from ‘hostile countries’ e.g. Russia and is pushed by social media algorithms the SM companies the SM companies should be appearing in court if they don’t take it down or block it. Create a new offence if necessary.

      What is Starmer doing sweet fuck all, banning 16 years old won’t help as it’s older people who are falling for this. Skip Leveson II and have Leveson III looking at this sort of stuff.

      Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) the Nazi radio propagandist was tried and hanged for treason at the end of WWII.

    34. deyterkourjerbs on

      I love the idea of a fly on the wall mocumentary about working at troll farms.

      Like groups of call centre staff watching training materials on how to sound like a MAGA/Scottish Independence/CCP/Brexit/Putin/Israeli/Albexit supporter.

      Being given personas. “Your name is Hamza, you post bait about wanting Sharia Law in Britain”. “Your name is Clive. You don’t use apostrophes ever and you reply to every post about Starmer accusing him of using rent boys. You think that the WEF is responsible for everything.”

      Etc.

    35. JonS90_ on

      Wife’s auntie was telling us at a family do the other week about a caribbean cruise she’d just got back from. Was sat with a table full of Americans for dinner, and they were saying they weren’t surprised she wanted to “get away from it all in the UK”

      When she asked what they meant (assuming they just meant the current political turmoil) they described what was essentially a war zone where we were being literally driven out of our homes by Muslim invaders.

      And then when she went on to tell them its not like that at all, they were saying they “knew what they’d seen”.

    36. Sad_Confusion_8576 on

      You don’t need to use AI videos the UK is declining. Just look at the figures. The fact that we’ve voted a party like reform purely to stick it to the two incumbent parties who did a horrible job tells you enough. Ask most voters who voted for reform what they stand for they probably don’t know apart from immigration. The sooner we realise it’s not the immigrants it’s not the ‘fascists’ that want their country back we’ve long sold the UK to corporate interests. Thats why the NHS is gutted, thats why Thames Water failed, thats why fuel prices have gone up. Thats why the Royal Mail a national entity provides such a terrible service. The UK taxpayer has been getting shafted for years regardless of what party is getting voted for. These narratives of immigrants and right wing, just create internal conflict; we fight amongst ourselves while the country was taken from us a long time ago. The profits remain private and the liabilities are on the public. How many councils need to fail for people to see that? How long will the railway infrastructure(particularly England) continue to be terrible for us to understand we’re participating in wealth extraction at the highest level. The quicker we understand the quicker we’ll know who the real enemy is and where to target the anger, but by then it will be too late.

    37. AeneasKurtz on

      Does this mean all those rapes and child grooming gangs didn’t exist? The Afghan gang running an empire on mobile thefts in London? The hundreds of random stabbings? The clean-up crews?

      It was all AI?!

    39. Artistically13 on

      But they didn’t fake 750,000 uk white female children being raped by migrants. Ai didnt try to cover it up. The uk police and establishment did. To this day. BBC is a criminal organisation. A front for the 322.

    40. gogul1980 on

      Never get your politics from Social Media. It’s like trying to get your nutrition from McDonalds.

    42. Such-Fortune712 on

      Because the breixt/alt-right people have been cult-style “banned” from using normal media they won’t see this.

      There is a book called “The Cult of Trump”. People really need to read it. It details the cult around him.