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X's Generative AI Image Edit Tool Ignites Backlash — Users Fear Image Misuse
(www.ibtimes.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2025
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Get ready for the post-reality Internet. You think deepfake porn is bad? Wait until entire voting blocs are swayed by what AI trash their side puts out during that election cycle. They’ll even be aware that it’s AI fakery and they won’t even care. It’s already begun.
We need aggressive action against this. Urge every politician you can to make media literacy taught in school. Students must learn how to identify disinformation and propaganda.
Somehow I dont think a class is going to fix this.
Then what would?
I dont know. Maybe its not fixable. Maybe democracy as we know it cant withstand contact with social media and AI any more than absolute monarchy could survive the printing press. Maybe it will get better on its own, as kids growing up with AI start to spot it the way people today spot CGI.
Who knows what the next generation of ai models may bring?
If language learning models really are a dead end then maybe the next big leap forward will bring with it positive change. Maybe not.
This is already happening. I couldn't stomach watching such slop, but immediately following the Bondi shooting and Ahmed al Ahmed was shown tackling the shooter, videos were circulating that replaced Ahmed with a middle aged white man, presumably because the correct footage flew in the face of the far right agenda of Australia having a Muslim problem.
Propaganda is hardly new.
Definitely not new, but the delivery of it has changed a lot, making it increasingly harder to identify as propaganda.