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[–] [email protected] 314 points 11 months ago (4 children)

The push to write in Biden on the ballot didn't go completely smoothly. The weekend before New Hampshire's primary, thousands of voters in the state received robocalls that used deep faked audio of the president in an attempt to dissuade them from turning out.

Whatever your thoughts on electoral politics are, this shit right here is such a terrifying prospect for the future...

[–] FenrirIII 110 points 11 months ago (2 children)

No one is taking credit, but we all know which party they're part of. Where is Roger Stone?

[–] iyaerP 81 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Not where he should be: prison.

[–] psycho_driver 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

His head should be adorning a spike atop a parapet somewhere.

[–] Branch_Ranch 4 points 11 months ago

His weirdly shaped head

[–] littlebluespark 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's an odd way to spell "melting quietly in an oil drum", but sure.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’d stick him in a drum of “Turpentine, acetone, benzene. [Judge Doom] calls it the dip.”

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Judge Doom wouldn't put himself, voluntarily, in the dip.

[–] littlebluespark 2 points 11 months ago

Judge Doom is what happens when you bip around in history like a hare-brained child with no regard for multi-universal consequences and the strain it takes on the squishy human psyche. Apparently, the loss of his dearest Clara and their children was enough to make the ol' Doc snap right to his core.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That’s the fucked up part: they’ll be decried as ”lone wolves”, and, as such, no care will be given in investigation nor pursuit. Each and every time. Nor to the aggregate effect of the countless “love wolves” who are never pursued, nor the fascist, terrorist packs they will obviously, inevitably form because they were ignored, alone, fed a diet of Trump and YouTube, and Alex jones, and Xitter…

But that’s the point.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm not sure if AI is going to revolutionize anything good, but it's certainly going to revolutionize election interference.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That, misinformation/propaganda, scam calls, etc. Shits gonna get wild real quick here soon, and I don't think we as a species are remotely prepared for it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I am fooled by imageai posts about 80% of the time. I don’t know how to not be, but it just makes me distrustful of everything

[–] Eldritch 3 points 11 months ago

It already has. But unfortunately the news is not in the business of reporting the news. It is in the business of advertising and engagement. And sensationalist/bad News drives engagement.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Goddamn. This is a depressing time.