The frightening part is that the slop doesn’t have to fool informed voters. It just has to reach people who don’t follow politics closely, long before a fact check ever catches up. One polished fake clip can become their entire impression of a candidate. Apparently political advertising has discovered the perfect product: certainty without facts.
I’ve been tracking deep fakes and AI in politics for a few years now, just waiting for the moment when they’d start using them to manipulate voters, and we’ve finally arrived. And as I predicted, it was MAGA who dove in head first. Truth has never been one of their virtues.
Just make it simpler; liability for not fact checking information and ban structurally important media from being for profit. Get too big? Congrats, you’ve been nationalized to serve public rather than private interest.
The frightening part is that the slop doesn’t have to fool informed voters. It just has to reach people who don’t follow politics closely, long before a fact check ever catches up. One polished fake clip can become their entire impression of a candidate. Apparently political advertising has discovered the perfect product: certainty without facts.
If we ever manage to get the country back, we need to immediately ban AI-created political advertisements, and put teeth into the law.
I’ve been tracking deep fakes and AI in politics for a few years now, just waiting for the moment when they’d start using them to manipulate voters, and we’ve finally arrived. And as I predicted, it was MAGA who dove in head first. Truth has never been one of their virtues.
Can we just ban political advertisement in general? Im tired boss. Im so tired.
Just make it simpler; liability for not fact checking information and ban structurally important media from being for profit. Get too big? Congrats, you’ve been nationalized to serve public rather than private interest.
Any lie told often enough is believed. Thank the Nazis for their insight.