Deepfakes showing grim taxpayer-funded waterparks have gone viral and drawn some racist responses.
  • entwine@programming.devEnglish
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    9 days ago

    “If people saw it and they immediately knew it was fake, then they would just scroll. The selling point of generative AI models is that they look real,” RadialB tells me over the phone. He refuses to share his real name but reveals he is in his 20s and from the north-west of England. He has never been to Croydon.

    Social media was a mistake. The “creator economy” was a mistake. Everything was a mistake. We really fucked up.

      • A7thStone@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        9 days ago

        In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

        -Douglas Adams

  • ofk12@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    10 days ago

    Of course they have. Pearl clutching Americans believe them because they have no frame of reference. The believe everywhere is as bad as the shithole they live in.

    • squaresinger@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      I agree, but to be fair, this is not a new problem, nor is it one limited to the US.

      I’m from Austria, and during the London riots (IIRC, that was in 2010 or 2011) I lived in the UK.

      My parents frequently sent me news articles and snippets from TV news about things happening in the UK, and it was constant horror stories, almost apocalyptic. They claimed that all of UK was in riot and specifically also mentioned the area where I lived in.

      In fact, all that I noticed of the riots was one peaceful demonstration on one afternoon and that was it.