this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2025
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Finally we know what AI is truly useful for

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

https://news-pravda.com/ posts multiple stories every minute, as far as I can tell just at all times. Something like this seems fairly likely.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

The Russian propaganda seems much more effective with the right-wing people. Is that an AI thing, or are they more susceptible for other reasons?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I know this might sound like an enlightened centrist take, but people hear what they want to hear on social media. Be it left or right.

Social media curation algorithms are geared towards driving maximum engagement and thus, echo chambers are formed.

Then, it is very easy to feed them propoganda via these chambers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

They're more susceptible. There was a study a while back that showed Republican's amigdila(brain fear center) are larger on average. Advertising also notice they're guillible long ago. Fox new ad space hosts cons like my pillow, reverse mortgages and trump merch because they'll buy it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

they fall for crypto scams, and scams in general all the time too.

[–] L0rdMathias 3 points 4 days ago

Sounds to me like someone just figured out their next research project.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

on reddit they always cofuse it with the ukranian version of the news too, as propaganda, im sure russia knows this and isnt by accident.

on youtube, i assume murdoch also controls the "australian sky news channel" too, which sounds like UK's sky news.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah. This is absolutely on purpose. What’s that hard-hitting documentary about the 2014 revolution called, it’s definitely “Ukraine on Fire” right?

[–] pelespirit 4 points 4 days ago

As a final step, the authors conducted a survey of 880 American adults recruited through the online survey platform Prolific and found that the content in the post-adoption period maintained the same level of persuasiveness as the pre-AI period. According to the authors, immediate action should be taken to mitigate the influence of AI-assisted propaganda campaigns.