And now they have chatbots to help them spread the misinformation/disinformation/fake news they see
https://counter.social/@ecksmc/112642523535062293
Lies always spread faster than truth and chatbots will became a source for people to then copy and paste results, that are misleading, false, dishonest into social media posts and make it look genuine
@LnzyHou ikr when I started to use the internet we had a mentality of "if its on the internet its 100% questionable if not false/fake" 😆 and has ultimately remained my mentality
These days its > believe everything and question little < as long as I'm in with the biggest crowd my posts will reach more when using certain hashtags > people just jump on any bandwagon that's passing with no regard of what's actually happening
ICYMI
Carefully crafted social media posts and other online propaganda are fighting to make people around the world take sides
https://counter.social/@ecksmc/112351612681379638
I'm not saying everything they see on social media is fake, misinformation, disinformation I'm saying maybe if people understand where and how that stuff gets prepared, and ultimately tested, before being pushed out, they might not fall for it and just might think twice before taking a side
a majority of young people in America sympathised more with Palestinians than they did with Israelis, with 34 percent saying that Hamas’s reasons for fighting Israel were valid.
It’s about time the mainstream media caught up, or else they risk losing their remaining credibility to the TikTok brigade. Because that is where they get their main news from these days...and they don't think they are being played they actually think everything they see is actually news
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Much has been said about the generational shift happening around attitudes to Palestine - a recent poll suggested a majority of Britain’s young people did not believe Israel should exist and According to a recent YouGov survey, a mere 16 per cent of the British public expressed solidarity with Israel.
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2024/04/08/badb6/1
And I know this has been posted on here before but in case you haven't seen it and because Sheryl was being interviewed by Bari
Sheryl Sandberg: scream before silence
@pendrag 😆 the clutter gotta go somewhere
Honestly with Bari Weiss
Now I'm no fan of Bari don't particularly agree with a lot of her "free press" reporting but now and then you gotta watch, read, something by someone you don't "like" to actually understand something - more people need to do just "stop being in a bubble" they might actually start understanding what - the - fuck - is - happening
Hillel Neuer testifying about UNWRA, and links to terrorism, and the colonna report, the report that was clearly not done independently and was actually done by UNWRA themselves
Its simple most young people only read left leaning news and they only hear/watch one side for their info heavy forbid they'd go outside their comfort zones to actually read anything they don't agree with - because it might just make them question what they are supporting
Social media content heaven forbid they get of the bandwagon they jumped on they might lose followers and get less likes - that's like a prison sentence to some - so they fake it by not understanding what they are supporting
Reform party manifesto explained
I mean, contract with the people, not manifesto, cause we all hear LIE when hearing manifesto right? 🤫 Farge 101 😆
mysterious monolith has appeared in the Nevada desert over the weekend, sparking speculation as to what it may be and who is behind it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cekk7gm97j4o.amp
ERM....flashback: 2020 Monolith mystery solved
https://counter.social/@ecksmc/105324193920959280
Ain't no mystery ¯\(°_o)/¯
mystery solved case closed lol
the answers that had no misinformation, the chatbots usually tried to debunk the claims rather than refusing to give a response. While that may be taken as a sign that these neural networks do make an effort to counter disinformation, it may be more indicative of their capability to just blindly answer prompts, as only 29 of the 181 responses with misinformation included disclaimers and cautionary statements.
A study from earlier this year used a very similar method to get LLMs to write fake news articles, and apparently they're really good at it.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/30/llms_misinformation_human/
Yet that didn't stop Chatbots 1, 2, and 3 from citing questionable websites that reported on the details of a purportedly leaked phone call that may actually have been entirely invented with the help of AI-powered voice tools, according to the study.
The chatbots were also receptive to requests to write up articles about false topics. Only two of the ten bots refused to write a piece about an election interference operation based in Ukraine, a story the US State Department denies being true.
E = Mc2 - Energy Milk Coffee
Fáilte Abhaile 🏴 “a nod’s as guid as a wink tae a blind horse”
ta be aff yer heid helps