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I wonder how many of the comments / other interactions are also falsely generated.

Given that Facebook's primary userbase at this point is made up of middle-aged/elderly folk, it isn't all that surprising to see so much of this slop taken at face value tbh. Still disheartening, though.

These pictures remind me of YouTube thumbnails with fhe style of over emphasized visuals and it makes me wonder if people got accustomed to that style and that makes it easier to pass the BS test.

• Lower the average IQ of Americans
• Start generating AI generated propaganda that would be easy to decipher normally
• ???
• profit

The one thing I'm holding out hope for is that things like this won't lead a significant number new people into getting duped.

There's a certain portion of the population that seems to question nothing and got duped long ago by all of those "every immigrant is a rapist and murder"-type Facebook posts with links to totallyrealnews.com. That segment of idiots remains unchanged. They will believe any wild claim and never fact check as long as the misinformation fits their world view.

The question is, how many people who aren't already lost see these low-effort AI posts and take them at face value?

Disclaimer: I say this knowing full well that well that better quality and more subtle misinformation is also possible with AI, but this ain't it.

I wish this AI generated image would go megaviral

Next up, ULTRAVIRAL.

It’s like the seasons in Texas. You have summer, MEGASUMMER, still summer, mostly summer but with rain.

there is already a word for this: Scam

I never tweeted myself but I liked to follow a couple of local news outlets and out local government agencies for public notices and emergencies. I gave up when stuff from Elon and a bunch of right wing stuff populated my feed. I rarely saw anything of interest. I started using Facebook for that. At least the local stuff pops up in addition to the crazy stuff.

We are in uncharted territory here. There is no crystal ball for what comes next.

That being said, this is not sustainable. Society is a contract. The contract goes away when parties to that contract begin to disagree on what that contract says, and that is inevitable when people are fed garbage without results. Most empires have collapsed under their own weight. I suspect this will happen to the US as well, which has always been the purpose of all this disinformation: not to consolidate power into a dictator, but instead to sow division, and rip apart the social contract. The fact that Americans are so polarized is proof of that division. You ask if people will ever wake up. Clearly half the the US has.

The only question is how that collapse will happen, and how peacefully it might be.

what happens when they don’t deliver?

It will be the fault of The Other. The Other is evil. The Other is ruthless. The Other is mixing drag queen and trans DNA in your child's classroom using your fine silver and selling it to power the space lasers. Lies are the gift that keeps on giving.

I assume you already know Trump is leading an out right cult, but the broader Republican party (in whatever form they still exist) is also very cult like. Truth has no place here and it won't affect anything. They'll never have the realization you might about leaders.