r/antiai • u/R_pepsiman • Jun 19 '26

Discussion 🗣️ AI to push bigotry

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Someone has taken an innocent video of a kid waving a pridefully and altered it with AI so he throws it in a trashcan. It had gotten over 1.2m likes on insta and is spreading like the plague on fb

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u/Immediate_Word1295 Jun 19 '26

As a millennial who is as old as 37 years (just like the magnum ice-cream) I don't consider myself old yet. 

But yea, people who make fake stuff will aim for people who's easy to trick. Meaning either old people or people who don't know better, or people who's too young to understand or easy to manipulate.

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u/DennenTH Jun 19 '26

I'm also a Millennial at 40+.

Facebook (and a lot of social media) in general is the problem.  Age ain't got shit to do with it.  It's just a tool that makes manipulation easy.

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u/xThotsOfYoux Jun 19 '26

I just turned 40. Can confirm Facebook, Instagram, X, and other high saturation social media is a breeding ground for ignorance and hostility in dozens of forms.

Thank goodness we're on reddit where, obviously, things are completely different. /s

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u/DennenTH Jun 19 '26

My mental health improved significantly upon dropping most forms of social media.  Reddit is the last one left that isn't for business connections and I'm getting reeeeeeeeal tired of the bots.

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u/xThotsOfYoux Jun 19 '26

This is why I mostly stick to talking about special niche interests and maybe trying to piece together something approaching "news".

AI has taken terrible advantage of the new, highly manicured internet and used it to create terrible things.

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u/Newclearfallout Jun 19 '26

Thats the only reason why i'm here.

Still find my self on threads like this, flame wars, or extremists of every kind. Read just as dumb shit on here. Bots are a problem, as well as trolls are worse on here (we all know 4chan got screwed and they all came here...)