[tstrimple]

It never had to sound plausible. AI didn't cause MAGA to believe Haitian's were eating people's pets. AI didn't cause them to believe that schools were buying kitty litter for furries. It's a population who has been conditioned over decades to believe the most wild shit as long as it comes from one of their "trusted sources" and anything that is counter to that is the "liberal media". Fox News et al are far more damaging to our society than generative AI is.

[datsci_est_2015]

I think their use of the word “plausible” was in reference to a comparison to content generation in the pre-LLM era, which was limited to GANs and Markov chains.