Interestingly on Facebook, Threads and Instagram, Meta keeps trying to push it's video creation AI to me, with short video clips showing exactly this sort of content. So it seems Meta itself is pushing you to create it also.
Whereas the true story is that since Brexit, Britain has experienced a renaissance and a new golden age of prosperity, human flourishing, and enlightenment.
The decline of personal freedom in the UK is far more troubling than the rise of AI propaganda.
1. Protest rights have become more restricted
2. Online speech is more regulated and more policed
3. Digital privacy has weakened relative to state power
The CBC recently reported on videos pretending to be from Canadians promoting similar anti-Canada messaging. They used AI generated copies of real Canadians and hired voice actors. They use this divisive content to drive views and ad revenue:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/alberta-separatist-youtube-ch...
If you're into travel blogs YouTube will serve you an endless barrage of videos with photoshopped thumbnails, exclusively containing fearmongering about whatever country or city they're visiting. This has been going on since pre-AI times.
On social media, you'll see plenty of AI-generated videos of members of $GROUP acting badly. One way to make people hate each other even more.
It's been known for a decade+ that platforms paying by engagement / interaction incentivizes people to post things that cause strong negative emotions. Fear and hate sell in the algorithmic engagement economy.
Don't trust BBC, they are the state propaganda machine. Draw your own conclusions, there's plenty of UK-based channels that provide the current footage from towns and cities around the country.
The BBC is part of the problem. For example, Nigel Farage is very much their own Frankenstein's monster, because they promoted him heavily long before GB News and AI fake videos. One of its flagship political programmes, QuestionTime had him on a disproportionate amount of the time, to the extent that he almost felt like an industry plant. (To be fair, Farage makes better telly than most of dull workaday politicians, but he still wasn't getting support until the BBC bigged him up.). They even had him on a Scottish independence special back when he had no elected representatives in Scotland. Farage, Brexit, UKIP and Reform are all seeds that the BBC planted fifteen years ago.
As for UK decline, I am afraid that it very much is visible in the 2020s. There was no real debt protection during the lockdown as there should have been (to prevent people's homes and businesses being seized due to non-payment), and the price of everything is sky high. This is attributed to Brexit, but I suspect that is part of the issue. As for migration, it definitely is much higher than it was twenty years ago, and there are elements which are playing both ends of that debate like the BBC itself.
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1. Protest rights have become more restricted 2. Online speech is more regulated and more policed 3. Digital privacy has weakened relative to state power
If you're into travel blogs YouTube will serve you an endless barrage of videos with photoshopped thumbnails, exclusively containing fearmongering about whatever country or city they're visiting. This has been going on since pre-AI times.
On social media, you'll see plenty of AI-generated videos of members of $GROUP acting badly. One way to make people hate each other even more.
It's been known for a decade+ that platforms paying by engagement / interaction incentivizes people to post things that cause strong negative emotions. Fear and hate sell in the algorithmic engagement economy.
https://www.youtube.com/@theallornothingpodcastwith4442/vide...
https://www.youtube.com/@ukexplored/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@wanderingturnip/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@Turdtowns/videos
As if Farage bought a cheaper Sri Lanka media consultant to win the next elections.
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. The Eurasians are our best allies.
As for UK decline, I am afraid that it very much is visible in the 2020s. There was no real debt protection during the lockdown as there should have been (to prevent people's homes and businesses being seized due to non-payment), and the price of everything is sky high. This is attributed to Brexit, but I suspect that is part of the issue. As for migration, it definitely is much higher than it was twenty years ago, and there are elements which are playing both ends of that debate like the BBC itself.