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1 year agoYou should care if you care about the future of this country. That’s blatant propaganda. There’s nothing stopping someone from generating AI images of police murdering an innocent Black person, or of a politician groping somebody, or all kinds of nefarious shit.
But you know, who cares about the truth as long as the meme tells you something you want to hear, right? Who cares if they can be used to spread dangerous misinformation that could swing an election in a fascist’s favor or convince Americans to use violence at an inappropriate time? Who cares, right?
It doesn’t matter. It’s a politically charged meme telling people to express a certain opinion passing off a fake AI-generated photo of a kid as a real one to convince people to accept its message, and it’s working.
Even when you’re being told the truth about the meme, you’re rejecting it.
The reason memes work is because they use either real photos that people collectively decide are suitable representations of certain emotions, situations or opinions, or obvious artwork. Not hyper-realistic fakes passed off as real photos.
And people listen to and are influenced by memes. That means people shouldn’t be using AI-generated fake bullshit in them. It’s too easy to lie to everyone and convince most people to believe it.
It’s too dangerous and people need to reject it now, before it’s too late and people are passing off even more politically charged shit.