alt Hacker NewsI don't understand why the people manipulated with lies aren't offended at the liars. They are primed to believe the lies, but aren't they mad that someone sought to manipulate them?
This keeps happening because it works. But why does it work? Why isn't there blowback?
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It's embarrassing. Instead, they tell themselves, "well, it could have just as easily been real."
This has always been the case.
However, the more interesting thing going on is that we have never had to reckon with this problem anywhere near as much as we do now, since the barrier to creating fakes has been reduced from "skilled, motivated software user" to "all five billion humans who can write".
Are you going to update your comment now that a retraction was issued? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50173029
The ironic part is that the veracity of the debunking is being questioned, so depending on how this turns out, this could either be referring to "haha dumb right wingers falling for AI generated meme" or "haha dumb left wingers falling for AI generated debunking". Truly a rorschach test of a comment.
edit: the story was retracted so the "people manipulated with lies" are the people who believed oregon journalism project?
Because they want it to be true.
Truth isn't important anymore.
I feel the same way. Anyone who lies to you is fundamentally insulting you.
Now that the story has been retracted, and the "real" image proven to be an obvious fake, are you mad that someone sought to manipulate you?