#AI and propaganda

[zomb13s]

The Forgotten Helpers: Artificial Intelligence, Capitalism, and the Suppression of Critical Voices

Your idea for an academic paper touches on many complex and interwoven concepts related to artificial intelligence, capitalism, mental healthcare, and societal power dynamics. Here’s a structured framework to develop this paper further while ensuring its themes and critical elements are cohesively connected. Abstract This paper explores the intertwined relationship between artificial…

[kawareo]

"AI does this better than me :("

"My work is never as good as AI's :("

"I have to use AI to be good :("

you're devaluing yourself. AI is not smart, it's not creative, it just has access to the whole internet at once (which btw includes all the wrong things), and guess what, so do you. You're better than the plagiarism machine and you've been lied to and told that it's smarter than you and I hope you stop believing that because you deserve better

[kropotkindersurprise]

^^ That's the CEO, he lives in San Francisco. This ad campaign purposely antagonizing workers must have been conceived and planned before a certain recent news story involving a widely hated CEO. "The way the world works is changing", indeed.

[sayruq]

Meta identifies networks pushing deceptive content likely generated by AI

Meta (META.O) said on Wednesday it had found "likely AI-generated" content used deceptively on its Facebook and Instagram platforms, including comments praising Israel's handling of the war in Gaza published below posts from global news organizations and U.S. lawmakers. The social media company, in a quarterly security report, said the accounts posed as Jewish students, African Americans and other concerned citizens, targeting audiences in the United States and Canada. It attributed the campaign to Tel Aviv-based political marketing firm STOIC. While Meta has found basic profile photos generated by artificial intelligence in influence operations since 2019, the report is the first to disclose the use of text-based generative AI technology since it emerged in late 2022. Researchers have fretted that generative AI, which can quickly and cheaply produce human-like text, imagery and audio, could lead to more effective disinformation campaigns and sway elections. In a press call, Meta security executives said they removed the Israeli campaign early and did not think novel AI technologies had impeded their ability to disrupt influence networks, which are coordinated attempts to push messages.

[crocrubies]

yuri so good they had to make one of them haunt the narrative

[yodaboda6]

[egg-emperor]

yo they got a relationship diagram on Sonic Channel! the Eggman section is under "Eggman family" :D

we're getting closer to seeing how they all interact and feel about each other and all together as a unit and I'm really excited to find out fjdjgksngkhsg

[fangatic]

a last note on the ai-fic bullshit

a couple days ago, a person i had never spoken to before shared my call-out post on x with the earnest intention of spreading awareness of the issue. she was attacked and harrassed so harshly by the same group of people who have been dragging my friends and i through the mud that she ended up having to deactivate.

this group of perpetrators then did their very best to turn this whole conversation on its head by accusing the poster of being anti-solavellan, of sharing the post with malicious intentions of dividing the fandom and tearing down amateur writers, and grouping her and i/my friends as antis and what not.

my thoughts on that development aren't any that i can express with any diplomacy or maturity whatsoever, but @drakonmo herself did a wonderful job at gracefully carving out the very important conversation we, as fans, need to have within our communities. whether you observed or participated in the conversation surrounding the silence and the song and the following shitstorm, i strongly urge you to read her post (here) (on x).

tldr/to those who might be in a rush, let me pull out some highlights:

by deleting the evidence and refusing to acknowledge the public claims were ever made, these people who despise me and wanted to foment discourse could succeed, armed with the trust and respect of loyal followers.

suddenly, the entire wall of text of explanations, of signs, of concerns were reduced to nothing but one portion of the whole. people began to attack OP and me and write threads, posts, etc, saying we were insulting all creators everywhere and we were - singlehandedly - the reason people didn't share their artwork.

clearly, these people argued, this insult and injury to all writers everywhere was a sign of these posts being a hate campaign. suddenly people could completely ignore the fact that the OP is a HUGE shipper, and i have been the world's most vocal proponent of shipping the particular character with anyone and/ or everyone.

i saw some people ask questions - what's happening, what's the drama, what's the situation? and they believed blindly the first things said to them without even trying to seek the truth or sources for themselves - and i truly mean this was an issue on both sides, for both people who ultimately agreed with me and people who did not.

the people that deliberately misrepresented what was being said, who nitpicked so that they could justify choosing "us versus them" - i ask that you consider, if you can and you would like to, to internalize and reflect how you may be susceptible to situations like this happening OFFLINE.

if ONLINE FANDOM misinformation can rouse such a level of discourse, hatred, fear, and anger over a fanfiction or ship ...what are the implications for REAL LIFE?

are you possibly reading a headline and believing it without reading the full article?

are your political and personal opinions swayed heavily by your peers, rather than being shaped by information and political education?

are you well informed and checking for bias from your chosen news sources?

do you exist in an echo chamber that has actively harmed your ability to understand other perspectives and worsened your capacity for allyship?

we best fight FASCISM when we recognize how we approach the people and issues around us, no matter how small. supporting artistic integrity in your fandom is a low rung on the ladder, but your approach to a sense of community and how news, conflict, and opinions form and spread IS vital.

thank you for reading, and thank you to those who have stuck by me (and by mo) despite the backlash it might have caused you. this has been insane and i look forward to never discussing that fucking fic again, but that doesn't mean we get to turn our heads on how this all turned to shit in the first place.

as a self-proclaimed safe space often characterised by escapism, we owe it to one another to make sure this community is as safe as can be and remains one where we care for one another despite which fictional characters we think should kiss.

[insoucianceart]

don’t feed the machine

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

Yet more examples coming out of the massively partisan political bias hardcoded into Google's AI program Gemini:

[agalychnisspranneusroseus]

The girls having to always justify and defend their relationship to the people around them post-Amphibia. No one takes them seriously. Firstly, they're so young, and when kids their age date, it's practically play pretend. No teenager is gonna have a relationship that mature, serious and committed, and the fact that Anne, Sasha and Marcy see theirs in those terms only speaks of how delusional they are. Which touches on the next point: everyone knows they went missing together, and when they came back, they were different, visibly traumatized and with obvious scars. People were already taken aback by the scar on Sasha's face - the most visible one, undeniably - but the whole cheerleader squad freaked out the first time they saw her back in the changing rooms. Not to mention the change in behavior and the sheer clinginess with which they treat each other. It's weird. Like, they're, what, 15 by now? They're not 5, jeez, do they need to hold hands all the time? Anyway, yeah, this whole "three person relationship" they insist on is clearly a trauma response. They grew so attached to each other for survival that now they can't have normal platonic or romantic relationships, poor things. The fact that they're all girls plays a minor role, too, because relationships between girls are already taken less serious in general. Like, ah, yes, your "girl friend". Don't you want a real relationship? You know, how do you know you don't like boys if you never gave them a chance? And maybe this last one would be insignificant compared to their other struggles if the fact that it's three of them didn't exacerbate it already. If two girls dating are often reduced to being friends, three girls dating is a joke, right? Like, this is literally just a friend group. People will be asking Anne out when Sasha and Marcy are right there and they made it clear that she's taken. 0 respect at all. Actually, the fact that they're three people is the main element people cling to to invalidate them. Right. Three teenage girls in a relationship. Do you hear yourself? Do they even know what they're talking about? You can't have a committed relationship with two people. In fact, you can't know what a committed relationship is at that age. This is clearly just a game and a coping mechanism, and their parents humor them as to not upset them, and because they seem genuinely happy together, but they're worried, and when one year passes, two years, three, four, five, and they don't seem to grow out of their little delusion, they're actively concerned and trying to take action, especially when they start talking about going to college together like - hold on, are they planning to do this forever?

[surviving-the-next-4-years]

The Republican Party hates art but love AI Image Generation. Not many understand the real reason why.

Art requires the ability to critically think and be creative.

AI Image Generation does not and it allows for the Republican Party to pump out as much propaganda as they want and not have a waiting period.

I still remember all the Republican Propaganda of cats with MAGAt hats and assault rifles after Trump’s “eating cats and dogs”. It allowed them to spread that lie as far as possible with no critical thinking or analysis.

Republicans reject art, they embrace propaganda just as much as they reject the worker but embrace the CEO.

[erica-the-airhead]

Everyone tomorrow is a very special day its @artificial-unintellegence-3 birthday the amazing person behind mine amd so many other beautiful bimbos art and programming on this app like this piece of myself irl as a milf

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MISTRESS!!!!

[kelykorruption]

Tumblr is being too soft so if you wanna see this post uncensored check it out over on my Twitter.

[ninisdollie]

I ask chatgpt to write niki fanfiction it sound like yours 😱😱😱

i will address this comment and i hope it’s the last one i receive of this topic.

i do not use ai to write my work, and never will. i will also never fall for this fear-monguering about ai usage where real writers are getting targeted.

if you take a close look to my works you’ll see that some of them even have typos because sometimes i don’t proofread, you’ll also see that the grammar isn’t always perfect because english isn’t my first language.

i write all my works on my macbook from scratch in the app pages, and sometimes on my notes app if it’s a short thought. i even change a few things once i put them on the tumblr drafts.

i also find this comment a bit offending because, i’ve ranted on here of how stressed i get when i’m on writer’s block and i’ve been very open about struggling with the asks (mind you i have more than 40 ask rn, i would’ve posted all of them already if i used ai)

i understand that there are a lot of ppl using ai to write their fanfics but i’m not one of them, and never will be. but also please keep in mind that good prose and term usage will obviously be used by a robot too, that doesn’t mean that a well-written story is ai-generated.

thank you for reading 💗

[sanabi-propagand-yay]

Daily reminder that AI (data collection) is fucking everywhere and to be safe online 💕💕💕