AI would seem to make it worse. I think it will also get worse because warmongers can automate propaganda and, with social media, reach people directly.
Cars are just faster horses, right?
Ships are just bigger canoes, right?
Photographs are just quicker made paintings, right?
Or… perhaps there is something different which makes practical what hasn’t been practical before? AI propaganda is the car of the propaganda horse of days past.
edit: downvoters should reply instead
Getting hit with a snowball could hurt you but is most apt to annoy you. Getting hit with an avalanche is apt to kill you. But hey, they are both snow, right?
When it's hundreds, from different viewpoints, it's much harder.
This is very scary. Being able to tell what’s true underpins western democracies. With everyone having plausible deniability from everything we’re going to have to… change things.
Yeah, some hoaxes will make it through the process, but some will be rectified later, and I don't see the ratio approaching 1. And those media are not hard to find. Taking the example from the article, there's no sustained uncertainty about whether the PM endorses a get-rich-quick scheme, and I don't see that coming, no matter how good the fakes become.
They could, but do they? Evidence says no - they are perfectly happen to run with lies if it fits their narrative - and then weeks later, tucked away someplace, issue a retraction - after the damage is done.
The BBC has an agenda, FOX news has an agenda, CNN has an agenda, MSNBC has an agenda, PBS has an agenda - they are all perfectly willing to lie to gather clicks or eyeballs - not sure AI is going to meaningfully change anything in that regard.
The BBC may have been trustworthy at some point, but that's a thing of the past.
Here's a well known example of them purposely deceiving their viewers in meaningful ways in recent history (sic).
Fortunately they were called out for it: