India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces

Re:India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arr... by hn_throwaway_99 on Monday May 29, 2023 @05:02PM (#36118082)

> Liberals fall for this trick frequently because they are obsessed with being seen to have to correct answer, so they invest for more effort in debunking than the liars did in making their claim.

Excuse me while my eyes roll into the back of my head.

Whether "liberal" or "conservative", some of us still care that facts matter. And honestly I would never have worried so much about calling out so much bullshit in the past until I saw so many of my fellow (voting) citizens actually believe this BS and take it to dangerous extremes. For example, when QAnon first came out, I just smiled a bit and laughed - "This doesn't even reach the level of bad fan fiction" I thought. Yet, lo and behold, significant swaths of the US population believe this, and I find that frightening.

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Re:India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arr... by anigbrowl on Monday May 29, 2023 @05:11PM (#36118149)

Sorry for not expressing my point more clearly. It's not that nobody should ever engage in debunking, but that deliberately bullshit statements are often introduced on social media to steal the time of well-meaning debunkers.

I realized Qanon was going to be a problem from when it first appeared, but that's because I've spent about 20 years paying close attention to mis- and disinformation and political influence groups. What I'm pointing out here is that the time costs of lying vs debunking favor liars, especially when aggregated across communities.

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Re:India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arr... by hn_throwaway_99 on Monday May 29, 2023 @06:02PM (#36118644)

Ah, gotcha, understood.

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