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by visnup 550 days ago
our only hope for verifying truth in the future is that state officials give their speeches while doing kick flips and frontside 360s.
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sadly it's likely that video gen models will master this ability faster than state officials
Remember when the iPhone came out and BlackBerry smugly advertised that their products were “tools not toys”?

I remember saying to someone at the time that I was pretty sure iPhone was going to get secure corporate email and device management faster than BlackBerry was going to get an approachable UI, decent camera, or app ecosystem.

Maybe they will do more in person talks, I guess. Back to the old times.
Until the AI can master the art of creating "footage of someone's phone if they were in the crowd of the speech in this other video", then we can't even trust that.
What officials actually say doesn't make a difference anymore. People do not get bamboozled because of lack of facts. People who get bamboozled are past facts.
Off topic from the video AI thread, but to elaborate on your point: people believe what they want, based on what they have been primed to believe from mass media. This is mainly the normal TV and paper news, filtered through institutions like government proclamations, schools, and now supercharged by social media. This is why the "narrative" exists, and news media does the consensus messaging of what you should believe (and why they hate X and other freer media sources).

By the time the politician says it, you've been soaking in it for weeks or months, if not longer. That just confirms the bias that has been implanted in you.

If anything I'd say the opposite. Look at the last US elections, a lot of the criticisms against the side that lost were things people "thought" and "felt" they were for/against, without them actually coming out and saying anything of the like. It was people criticising them for stuff that wasn't actually real on X, traditional TV, and the like that made voters "feel" like that stuff is real.

And X is really egregious, where the owner shitposts frequently and often things of dubious factuality.

You say offtopic, but I think AI video generation is the most on-topic place to bring up the subject of falsified politically charged statements. Companies showcasing these things aren't exactly lining up to include "moral" as one of the bullet point adjectives in a limitations section.
> and why they hate X and other freer media sources

I left X precisely because it was flooded with Russian propaganda/misinformation.

Such as?
Nonsense like:

- People were 'forced' into vaccinations

- Covid 19 was a testing ground for the next global pandemic so that "they" can control us

- Climate change is a hoax/Renewables are our doom

- Everything our government does is to create a totalitarian state next.

- Putin is actually the victim, it is all NATO fault and their imperialism

Why is it impossible for these opinions to be homegrown? Would people be a hivemind without Putin?
> People were 'forced' into vaccinations

"Take this novel vaccine primarily for someone else's benefit or lose your job: it's your choice, you totally aren't being 'forced.'"

What are you talking about? News media LOVE twitter/X, it is where they get all their stories from and journalists are notoriously addicted to it, to their detriment.