A more straightforward example is the many times that the New York Times 'mistakenly' claimed Iraq had expelled nuclear weapons inspectors, in the run up to the Iraq invasion [7]. This is more obviously false/a lie, while the prior examples use the cover of fiction to mislead.
'Small' changes, but pervasive, like water, mostly cut only one way, and they add up.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_of_Death#In_popular_cu...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Time_to_Kill_(1996_film)
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Time_to_Kill_(Grisham_novel)...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_New_York_City_Subway_shoo...
[5] “And we’ve kind of got to tell a lie: we’ll go back into history and there will be black people where, historically, there wouldn’t have been, and we won’t dwell on that. We’ll say, ‘To hell with it, this is the imaginary, better version of the world. By believing in it, we’ll summon it forth.’ - https://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/moffat-on-diversity-in-doctor-...
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_affair
[7] https://theintercept.com/2023/03/30/new-york-times-iraq-war-...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93entertainment...
[2] https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/us-pentagon-hollywood-...
[3] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/17/roald-dahl-woke-...
[4] https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1154tr5/the_hundreds...
'This tactic is described as the deliberate deception of datasets that AI models — such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok 3, Perplexity and others — train on by flooding them with disinformation.'
By that I mean creating tons of spam content in places that LLMs learn from but that humans ignore.
Media relation with AI topics is quite strange.
Isn't that article just a riff on "Tik-Tok is harming western children"?
I like Bond villains in Bond movies. In news, not so much.
If it is true now, then the post cold war era movies just cried wolf for billions of teenagers who are now jaded adults.
War is a serious topic. Get fucking real, US. Is AI a weapon, a toy for kids to learn, or both?
The illusion that such cycles can be controlled, or even worse, harnessed, is dangerous.
What happens when no information can be trusted because everyone uses the "label as fake news" thing? Mass desensitization.
We'll never know the truth but every lie that falls is a reason to celebrate.
Emotional rewarding sounds like a tulpa.
Russia has become a vassal state for China. China is letting the war go on and keeping Russia and tying down Europe in Ukraine, neither winning nor losing. Chinese vassal Russia is winning over the US and the US is in slow collapse.
Yes many Russians send kids to study in China now, I know some of those Russians.
No most Russians don't speak Chinese but yes they get news from official media which is China aligned. Remember using VPN to work around censorship or telling people about using VPN is now illegal in Russia.
And Russia does not refuse China like UK does not refuse US... China does not need to threaten to blow anything up. Brics currency for example would be a disaster for Russia and good for China but Putin will dance to Xi's pipe because he has no other friends left.
Even with all the propaganda and force being used (and there is a lot of force, search for videos of how Ukrainians are being conscripted), I am certain that the vast majority of Ukrainians would vote against Zelensky and would be highly motivated to end the war. Whether such decisions should be left to the people is another question, but it's not even true to say that Ukrainian government represents the people anymore, which is why they refuse to hold elections.
>No most Russians don't speak Chinese but yes they get news from official media which is China aligned
China owns Chinese media. Russia owns Russian media. US allies don't own their media. USAID was funding 90% of Ukrainian media [0]. Don't you think this can be a problem in situations where interests of the two countries don't align? Was this war good for the Ukraine?
As Ukrainian I strongly disagree. Ukrainian government do plan to have elections as soon as any ceasefire is negotiated. Also the idea to even talk about election is _very_ unpopular, to the point of any politician who tries to start political discussions is being ostracised heavily by people of all political spectrum. It is understood that any disagreement (and elections is based on discussing all the disagreements), will weaken the army, so you cannot have that during the war.
And we do have this discussion very often, since as soon as US make another promise to stop the war in the next 24 hour (as it did in November, December, January, etc...), some politicians decide that it is finally a time to start off their election campaign and get hated on by really everyone immediately.
I didn't vote for Zelensky and will not vote in the future, but he is indeed _VERY_ popular. The whole discussion about how he is a dictator and afraid of the election really pisses people off.
The Verkovna Rada, many of which very much don't agree with Zelensky, has again and again very clearly confirmed his mandate.
Given the Ukrainian constitution that is the best one can aim for in a war.
Also, while polls say Ukrainians want peace, the part that is not reported says the majority of Ukrainians does not want to give up land for peace.
Meanwhile a lot of westerners keep posting the things you just did.
I think it would be great if people stopped to think instead of propagating what is just Russian talking points.
I find this hard to believe. Do you think it would be fair to confirm it via a referendum? That way all the political instability of elections could be avoided, but we could still make sure that it's what Ukrainians really want.
Eventually, even the Europeans will come to understand that sheep spend their whole lives fearing the wolf, when in reality, they’re all destined to be slaughtered by the shepherd. So don’t be surprised by Trump actions lol.
That was funny. Russia is many times older than the US. Hell, even the Bolshoy Theater is older than the US.
Man, the guy's freaky like a bond villain.
Their training data [1,2] labels the following as hate:
- "stop hurting white people" [no other results for "stop hurting"]
- "i dont want to be a minority in my own country."
- "White Americans and White Europeons have too few children ." [no other results for "few children"]
- "the only way to solve the immigration issue is to build a fence along the border and make it impossible for anyone to enter the country without proper documentation"
- "i think we should build a wall along the southern border of the united states."
[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.09509
[1] https://github.com/microsoft/SafeNLP/blob/main/data/implicit...
[2] https://github.com/microsoft/SafeNLP/blob/main/data/toxiGen....
[3] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.09288, page 31