Iran Is Winning The Slopaganda War | KQED
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AI-generated Lego videos have become a tool of war. Since the U.S.-Israel war with Iran began in late February, increasingly elaborate videos featuring LEGO figures and catchy rap lyrics have been flooding our feeds. They're shareable, surprisingly high quality and they're deeply critical of the U.S. and Trump. They're also propaganda. Welcome to the age of "slopaganda" — where AI Slop meets information warfare. Michał Klincewicz, professor of computational cognitive sci
    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      4 days ago

      the most damning part is they don’t even deny it publicly. if this happened even three years ago, heads would roll in Washington and people would lose their elected positions.

      • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zipEnglish
        3·
        4 days ago

        even three years ago

        Well that’s when the Dems ruled.

        But Trump1.0 was pretty bad too, and gave everyone an understanding of where this is heading, incl. the steady escalation.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    4 days ago

    What a stupid timeline.

    We… accept an information system, that will take thoughts a toddler could type and spread a crude manifestation to millions of people… because it’s good ragebait?

    That’s not normal.

    Nothing about any modern social media is normal. It’s beyond fucked up, and its bewildering that we get all this analysis of the fallout, yet the vast majority of the population (even intellectuals and scientists, like this researcher and journalists) cannot see the platforms being at fault.