• plinky [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Social media will be basically unusable soon, so that’s kinda sad. At least arguing with troll, there is person there spending some effort instead of bunch of beep boop probability texts. Guess video evidence will be gone as well

    • plinky [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      in violation of its internal policies, to permit a network of sham accounts that spread phony news items of dubious accuracy, including a claim that the Iranian government was stealing the organs of Afghan civilians. Though the Twitter-based propaganda offensive didn’t use of deepfakes, researchers found that Pentagon contractors employed machine learning-generated avatars to lend the fake accounts a degree of realism.

      • plinky [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        You will talk to people irl, or you will talk to robots, which are all cia/dod/frontex/porn/whatevs puppets, amazing

    • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      i mean, if capitalism innovates away from social media by making it impossible to distinguish fake data from the genuine article over anything but an in-person interaction, i'll take that. it'll have been a very silly 30 years but whatever.