• blazera@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    He also revealed that about nine months ago his team conducted a deep dive into how these groups are using AI to influence elections.

    “In just the last few months, the most effective technique that’s been used by Russian actors has been posting a picture and putting a real news organization logo on that picture,” he observed. “That gets millions of shares.”

    information as we know it is over, people have access to the most devilish of AI technology: Copy and Paste

    wow this article is bad

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      8 months ago

      I think the point was that it is easier and faster to generate that image you put the logo on than ever before, not that it was a comment on “logo inserting technology”

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      8 months ago

      So the most effective thing isn’t AI, it’s literally just a 5 second copy paste job that could be done in paint?

      Wonder if people will fear monger over copy/paste like they have AI?