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Artificial intelligence is automating the creation of fake news, spurring an explosion of web content mimicking factual articles that instead disseminate false information about elections, wars and natural disasters.

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We won’t need AI to weaponize machine robot armies….misinformation is making us so angry we are ripping each other apart

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Raymond Gibson's avatar Raymond Gibson @raymondgibson.bsky.social
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The internet has done for bullshit what Gutenberg did for information.

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I Heart Noise's avatar I Heart Noise @iheartnoise.bsky.social
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Quelle surprise

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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)'s avatar Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off) @wolvendamien.bsky.social
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How automated is this feed?

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Policy_g's avatar Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social
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This and AI generated internet friends that persuade you is exactly what I would do if I ever decided to be evil.

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Nerdahedron's avatar Nerdahedron @nerdahedron.bsky.social
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Gee, I wonder who could have predicted that?

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Aviendha69 - ⊃∪∩⪽'s avatar Aviendha69 - ⊃∪∩⪽ @aviendha69.bsky.social
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this.

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Pengwennotes's avatar Pengwennotes @pengwennnotes.bsky.social
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It was already hard to sort. Now????!

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Sign the contract with your workers. Its Christmas Scrooge. One more shovel of coal for the fire please sir.

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Alexander The Meh's avatar Alexander The Meh @alexanderthemeh.bsky.social
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Worried you can't compete anymore?

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The Book of the Void's avatar The Book of the Void @eddyrobinson.bsky.social
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Well duh The smartest thing older media could do is dump most opinion columnists, explainer articles, and bylines.

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Carl Nyberg 's avatar Carl Nyberg @carlnyberg312.bsky.social
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Dear WaPo, go fuck yourselves. You and your NYC/DC brethren have introduced so much bullshit & inaccuracy into the public discourse that it's absurd for you to be raising this issue.

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The Lost Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦's avatar The Lost Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦 @lostscot.bsky.social
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What we need is a lot of articles about how election results and scientific research are accurate and correct to balance out the opposite nonsense. Or just stop letting AI do all of the things that it's currently doing.

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Citizen E's avatar Citizen E @citizene.bsky.social
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That’s the future of the press, as they can’t stop themselves fr being sold to billionaire fascists and cleptocrats and so will follow suit

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Citizen E's avatar Citizen E @citizene.bsky.social
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No shit

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's avatar @gdmilkman.bsky.social
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Duh. This isn't news.

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Ken Ryan's avatar Ken Ryan @kenryan.bsky.social
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"... and Washington Post is here for it."

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Michael's avatar Michael @mfukar.bsky.social
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no way, if only there was some way we could have known in advance

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John O’Donnell's avatar John O’Donnell @jodami.bsky.social
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Ah, now AI is coming for their jobs, they have noticed automation is not always a good thing.

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Mumko69's avatar Mumko69 @mumko.bsky.social
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Cool. So I was right not to trust anyone

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Design by Adrian's avatar Design by Adrian @designbyadrian.bsky.social
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If people would have listened to experts rather than investors. Same with cryptocurrency really. And 3DTV.

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Kai su, bygåy 💫's avatar Kai su, bygåy 💫 @bygay.bsky.social
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Oh, who could have seen it coming.

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Political Film Blog's avatar Political Film Blog @jgiambrone.bsky.social
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Just like all the shit that comes out of politicians and media whore's mouths already...

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Robert W. Gray's avatar Robert W. Gray @firebobbc.bsky.social
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Yep, didn’t see that coming. Between unregulated social media, news agencies that spread misinformation and disinformation, and the irresponsible use of A.I. Our democracy is in serious danger.

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Maybe firing a large percentage of your human reporters is contributing to the problem? Nah, totally unrelated, for sure.

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Jamison Foser's avatar Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social
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who, other than literally everyone who has ever thought about this topic for more than three seconds and does not stand to be personally enriched by it, could possibly have predicted?

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Rob Cave's avatar Rob Cave @robcave.bsky.social
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It’s called machine learning.

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Jonathan's avatar Jonathan @jginsburg.bsky.social
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No, really? How could this have possibly happened it came out of nowhere

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beat the heat by beating your meat's avatar beat the heat by beating your meat @salarta.bsky.social
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Bill Stewart's avatar Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social
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Good thing the WaPo has a large staff of actual human writers and editors who can sort that stuff out, right.....?

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✨brit ✨'s avatar ✨brit ✨ @britculpsapp.bsky.social
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no shit

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Ethan “κακοθερής” Harfenist's avatar Ethan “κακοθερής” Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social
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Wonder why it’s getting disseminated? It’s not like major news outlets are, ya know, unironically calling this “intelligence.”

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The chicken lady's avatar The chicken lady @chickenlady.bsky.social
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AI usage shld be exclusively and only for areas it's actually needed: analysing huge data sets and NOT HUMAN INTERACTION Why the hell is everyone pretending this is a done deal?! People aren't walking around with succinylcholine in their bags,they can't buy uranium in the supermarket. Regulate AI!

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Citizen Kate ☠️ 's avatar Citizen Kate ☠️ @citizenkate.bsky.social
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Crazy

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Tamara Bumpdeeay 's avatar Tamara Bumpdeeay @moiness.bsky.social
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They will be crashing markets next

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Josephine Stewart's avatar Josephine Stewart @jostewart.bsky.social
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WaPo cut ~150 news jobs this year (plus ~120 on the business side): ALL local columnists, the entire social issues team, and education reporting. The 3rd richest person on the planet owns you, and if he had a problem with either "AI" or the total destruction of the news, things would look different.

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Frankie0400's avatar Frankie0400 @frankie0400.bsky.social
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Little surprising.

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HenryHill1's avatar HenryHill1 @henryhill1.bsky.social
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You guys write some real shit, too.

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