Braindead yankees in the Twitter comments thinking arresting the orange man is going to magically fix the US and make it the best place on the planet lol
they think symbolism matters to change the world
they have a point, remember how they destroyed the People’s Republic of China by copypasting Winnie the Pooh memes?
That’s because bellingcat want to convince everyone AI image fakes are really common and hard to spot when actually they’re pretty easy to spot these days and tend to only appeal to the already converted since as soon as you show someone something they disagree with, they don’t just change their minds they actually immediately seek to debunk it because that’s the lighter mental load.
Bellingcat don’t actually need to convince you deepfakes are a real thing because deepfakes are not a real problem. Their true desire is the ability to denounce even photographic evidence of atrocities as fake when it’s convenient for them to straight up deny reality.
Coverage of machine learning related stuff has obliterated the last shred of faith I had in mainstream media. Journalists even worth their weight in dirt would have ideally demystified these technologies. Instead what we get is people who talk about AI like medieval peasants.
don’t get me started on it. The most apparent sign of how successfully and thoroughly capitalism has dismantled and destroyed the western cultural heritage is exactly this: people act excited at the prospect of automating art and creative writing instead of horrified and worried about what that could entail for the creative area of human cultural development.
Yeah, AI can make cool images, if you are fine with those images having no style whatsoever and no real drive other than being purely descriptive.
