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a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service (www.404media.co)
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[–] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And even if it's never political, so what?

Someone uses it to promote a dangerous supplement, with thousands of fake, AI-generated videos of people taking it without issues, and suddenly a bunch of people buy it, take it, and suffer severe consequences, or even die.

But good thing it's not gonna manipulate who you'd vote for amirite? Totally harmless! /s

[–] bigchungus@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 5 days ago

Oh, I agree with you. My point was that they will probably support more political efforts than the spokespeople will have you believe.