Overseas fakers using AI videos to push a narrative of UK decline, BBC finds

Wait so, everything in the UK is going perfectly fine? Rapes have not increased by some 200% over the last 10 years? https://www.statista.com/statistics/283100/recorded-rape-off...

the GDP has not been stagnating?

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/gbr/uni...

the social housing in London area is not majority occupied by foreigners?

I could go on forever.

Why is it wrong or comdenable to talk about these facts, as the article seems to allude to? Not talking about real problems is going to backfire and fuel the really crazy people and parties. We are seeing it all over Europe that the establishment is not taking care of the problems of the citizens, and ridiculing those that are talking about it. That's only going to end ugly and plays right into extremists hands.

Such is the way to radicalize people - convince them with propaganda that their way of life is at risk.

Interestingly on Facebook, Threads and Instagram, Meta keeps trying to push it's video creation AI to me, with short video clips showing exactly this sort of content. So it seems Meta itself is pushing you to create it also.

Part of a larger pattern.

If you're into travel blogs YouTube will serve you an endless barrage of videos with photoshopped thumbnails, exclusively containing fearmongering about whatever country or city they're visiting. This has been going on since pre-AI times.

On social media, you'll see plenty of AI-generated videos of members of $GROUP acting badly. One way to make people hate each other even more.

It's been known for a decade+ that platforms paying by engagement / interaction incentivizes people to post things that cause strong negative emotions. Fear and hate sell in the algorithmic engagement economy.

On one hand those 3rd world despair porn accounts are a plague. On the other hand, my god has the UK declined.

The decline of personal freedom in the UK is far more troubling than the rise of AI propaganda.

1. Protest rights have become more restricted 2. Online speech is more regulated and more policed 3. Digital privacy has weakened relative to state power

Whereas the true story is that since Brexit, Britain has experienced a renaissance and a new golden age of prosperity, human flourishing, and enlightenment.

lol.