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Ai generated political ads in the wild (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by storksforlegs@beehaw.org to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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I watch a lot of progressive political content on youtube, and am still bombarded by far right ads, like "Epoch Time" etc.

Im not sure what "Earn Tech" is but no way am I clicking on this.

But this is a new one, this is clearly an AI generated image of Trudeau - trying to make him look angry? I wonder how bad these are going to get. Anyone else seen any?

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[-] Oldmandan@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 year ago

They're all over Youtube. Especially the shorts. I've given up on trying to report them, at this point, it doesn't seem to make a difference. Started noticing them a month or two ago.

[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago

They promote alcohol and gambling to minors, so I don't think they give a damn about society-changing propaganda ads on their platform.

[-] cooljacob204@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

Which is why I'll never stop blocking ads.

[-] aegisgfx877@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

so say we all

[-] ShadowRam@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's crazy, I happened along this youtube channel, and it REEKS of AI generated bullshit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwQe2fna4KI&t=612s

The thumbnails are all fake.

The comments are all fake.

The commentary of the video is extremely weird.

The videos of the machines are real, but the titles are all weird,

and all the videos are the same machines just re-hashed order of them every few days.

The comments thou.. definitely bots.....

[-] Godwins_Law@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Mother's maiden name and birthday of the "researcher"....... That's a little odd lol

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[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Is this bullshit even against YouTube TOS?

[-] GreenMario@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

Fake politics ads: I sleep

Say fuck once in the first minute: D E M O N I T I Z A T I O N

[-] aegisgfx877@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

Fake health news which literally can kill people: Youtube - HERE IS 1 BILLION DOLLARS

[-] storksforlegs@beehaw.org 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I went to report the ad to see where it is based.

...Estonia, apparently.

[-] Grimpen@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Not too far from Talinn, Estonia to St. Petersburg, Russia. Curious.

[-] szczuroarturo@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

its probably setup in Estonia beacuse as far as i know its ridicolously easy to set up a company there.

[-] Tigbitties@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago

You've got to be impressed with how to the point the title is. "There's a thing that happened! Learn about the thing before it's too late!" is actually foundation click bait titles are made on.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Their revolutionary 0-layer clickbait generating AI!

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 22 points 1 year ago

These are the scams that promise Canadians that Elon Musk is giving them billions of dollars for some reason.

It's interesting how when you want to scam someone you mention Crypto, Elon Musk, and Trudeau hatred to narrow the audience to only the most stupid.

[-] TemporaryBoyfriend@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

narrow the audience to only the most stupid.

This is a totally legit method for filtering out the people too smart to fall for the scam. That's why scam eMails are so poorly written -- to entice only the dumbest segment of society to find out more.

[-] gk99@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

A little bit south and I'd just say something about abortion and Trump.

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 year ago

I keep getting ads about far right bullshit and suggested videos as well. It's almost as if they want far right radicalisation.

[-] apprehensively_human@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago

It's an alt-right leaning bias driven by engagement. Hank Green made a video a while ago showcasing a similar issue on Google Image search. Basically, normal users scrolling through content will see a thumbnail for something outrageous so they will click on it out of curiosity which boosts engagement. The algorithm takes notice and starts feeding similar content.

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago

They usually crop up after I view left wing channels. So, I'm more suspicious of it.

[-] storksforlegs@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Yes, same! I only watch progressive news sources and podcasts. But I did watch a bunch of cbc lately, maybe so many conservatives were hate-watching it skewed the algorithm

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

I'm wondering why I get political ads for milhouse after watching a channel like second thought or Beau of the fifth column.

[-] EhForumUser@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The algorithm is primed by engagement. It is almost certain that progressives are most likely to engage with this ad and ones like it.

Why would anyone else? Those who lean right will think: "Not that blowhard again. Yawn." and those who pay no mind to politics will think: "I don't know who that is. Next." But the progressives will think: "Hey, I know that guy. I wonder what he said now? <click>"

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[-] GreenMario@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Well, right wing govs won't charge em taxes so...

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

When newspapers were the only source of news ... government had to regulate them because they were used as political tools

When network television became popular ... government had to step in to regulate this industry as well

Now everyone gets all their information and news from social media ... there is no regulation of this industry and now everyone is suffering from either a lack of information, an abundance of non-information, plenty of misinformation and lots of disinformation

Regulate social media because they are society's modern newspapers

[-] CoffeeBot@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

I keep seeing them too! It’s always some “news report” looking format with either angry Justin or confident PP (weird how that works).

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

What makes you so sure it's AI generated? It looks a little too clean, but there's plenty of pic of Trudeau like that they could have used: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=trudeau%20angry&amp;iar=images&amp;ko=-1&amp;iax=images&amp;ia=images

[-] Rubanski@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

It is quite obviously AI generated. It has that "AI glow".

[-] storksforlegs@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think it's trained on real photos, it just looks like a weird clean painting - like an AI generated image.

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