To those saying "Oh I can tell it's fake, obviously!", consider: will your parents/grandparents? And will you still be able to tell in five years, when this tech has had 20 new iterations, each addressing the very tells that right now let you notice it's fake? I know, I know, photoshop and fake pictures have always been around. But now, everyone can do it in 30 seconds. That changes things.
Agreed. Scrolling past pre-coffee I didn’t look too closely at the the details, and only on second glance did I spot the (in hindsight) obvious flaws. This is like how I could smuggle two “the”s into the previous paragraph without most people noticing; we skim more often than we realize.
AI Generated Propaganda
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Re: AI Generated Propaganda
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There is an open-source browser extension called Privacy Redirect which will turn all Twitter links you click into Nitter links [0]. This also turns Reddit links into Libreddit/Teddit links, YouTube links into Invidious links, etc. Basically you get to browse an Internet without intrusive pre-roll ads or outrage algorithms. I think based on your comment that this might be of interest to you. [0]: https://github.com/S…
I'd recommend to have a look at https://github.com/libredirect/ as it gets actively developed and has more sites and features.
- it rewrites URLs in content that I write, so when I posted a HN story about a youtube video, it changed the URL to some random Invidious instance
- its icon is not shown in the extension list in Firefox, so I never know whether it's on or not
- it seems to not work on Youtube anymore after I disabled it temporarily, despite the toggle being back on
- to change the config, I can't just click the icon (like I would in, say uBlock Origin or even Privacy Redirect), no, I need to go to Extensions > Libredirect > Click the three dots > Settings
I feel like the promise and the actuality of this plugin are worlds apart, sadly.
Re: AI Generated Propaganda
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It works other way too. This elder person I know refuses to believe anything bad about his motherland by claiming it is fake news/propaganda. Even when it is reported by the biggest news agencies in both, his motherland and the west.
The ageism is silly (though not uncommon on HN). Plenty of young people are in the same boat and in the west! It's nothing new. Discerning propaganda has always been extremely difficult.
It is just my personal experience. I didn’t want to say exact relationship but this person is related.
I know there are plenty of young people who also block facts that contradict their views, sadly.
My point was more about that people will also use fake news/generated media as an excuse to deny facts.