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AI-made videos using attractive young women promote Poland's EU exit (www.euronews.com)
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AI-generated videos promoting Poland's exit from the European Union have appeared on Polish-language social media, featuring non-existent, attractive young women advocating for "Polexit".

One TikTok account called "Prawilne Polki" published content showing women dressed in T-shirts bearing Polish flags and patriotic symbols, European analytics collective Res Futura said. The content targeted audiences aged 15 to 25.

The videos featured statements including: "I want Polexit because I want freedom of choice, even if it will be more expensive. I don't remember Poland before the European Union, but I feel it was more Polish then."

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[โ€“] Tuuktuuk@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 month ago

To white people, if the political influencing in the world and things like the drug pandemic in the US, and Russia, don't count. The cleansing in Indonesia of Communists was caused by the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_1965%E2%80%9366 . A bit more than 50 years, like Bangladesh, but isn't that enough to make Russia the lesser evil?

If we are taking this from 1960's in this weird comparison of ours that has nothing sensible to do with Ukraine (as USA is not a part of neither Ukraine or the Russia), the we'll also need to take into account those who died in the Soviet prison camps. The death toll was absolutely maddening until the GULAG system was closes in the late 1950's, but even after that deaths were extremely common. The death toll of the Soviet prison camp system after 1950's is a seven-digit number.

Though, all of this doesn't matter: Even if the death toll of Soviet camps had been only, say 1000 people per year, it would still not mean that those were not okay. It's impossible to find US numbers without a Soviet counterpart that is even higher. That doesn't mean that the USA is somehow a fantastically awesome country or anything like that. It only means that they were very murderous instead of very extremely murderous back in those days.

And indeed: Even is USSR had been only very murderous instead of very extremely murderous โ€“ or even if it has been merely murderous, genocides are still not an okay thing to do. It doesn't matter if you make a very big genocide or a genocide that is very small when compared to some other genocides. A genocide is never acceptable. Never ever.