• subignition@fedia.io
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    4 months ago

    A somewhat more hopeful take is that this strategy could be weaponized against misinformation too.

    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 months ago

      lol. Let me remind you: We live under capitalism. Capital is not out there spreading truth and justice. Quite the opposite.

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      4 months ago

      While also making genuine bad press easier to dismiss.
      eg: “fake news” says the worlds ugliest person.

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    4 months ago

    Imagine it is two weeks before a major election in a closely contested state. A controversial ballot measure is on the line. Suddenly, a wave of posts floods X, Reddit, and Facebook, all pushing the same narrative, all amplifying each other, all generating the appearance of a massive grassroots movement. Except none of it is real. …Trust in the information people encounter on X, Facebook, and Reddit, already eroded, could fall even farther.

    It’s much more difficult to be propagandized by any means, including autonomous AI, when you’re not freely offering up your own time and devices daily to have it fed to you, individualized just for you by means of your own data, which you are also donating to the cause of propagandizing you.

    I get why people do, there are lots of good reasons, but at a certain point the good outweighs the bad. And there’s no time like the present to make a change.

    So if you’re reading this and you are still interacting with these centralized corporate-owned propaganda sites regularly, maybe it’s time to rethink that strategy.