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It's as though misinformation for manipulation is what this digital masquerade of humanity that entirely ignores whatever cost to our society and our climate was built by oligarchs to do. bsky.app/profile/drew...

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com

The Sora AI disinfo nightmare is here For more like this: tiktok.com/@drewharwell instagram.com/bydrewharwell

^^^ That, and keep energy prices from falling through the floor due to renewable uptake. Debatable if that's their goal, or just them choosing a vers of ~AI~ that reuses all the crypto hardware(and has the same problems) they over-bought after that bubble burst, but the effect's the same.

The idea here is definitely to release something dangerous in order to get press attention and catch the eye of enterprise/advertising orgs so that OoenAI can sell un-watermarked video generators. I've been saying it for years but the ultimate goal here is to take your face and insert it into ads.

Have you seen the photo of the ICR agent zip cuffing an African American baby in Chicago? This shit is going to get people killed and those responsible will just get paid and offer more upgrades.

I know this is rock bottom low on the list of concerns, but this has really shook my ability to trust any video I see online, even of the most mundane things, as real. It’s not a great feeling and I worry about the cumulative effect of that dissonance every time I’m scrolling. Idk, seems bad!

Good to know the subway clip was AI. It came up on TikTok yesterday and it gave me an uncanny valley vibe but it was mundane enough that I didn't bother to confirm it. We are so screwed.

Premise was her and the guy being strangers but she shoots the video referencing him as her husband. He gets surprised by it and she tells him something like, "Well, you could be. Are you interested in that?" and he acts with a wide-eyed surprise of a young man being hit on.