Fake war footage is a problem as old as social media. AI has just supercharged it.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260303211936/https://www.404media.co/x-will-stop-paying-people-for-sharing-unlabeled-ai-generated-war-footage/
Fake war footage is a problem as old as social media. AI has just supercharged it.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260303211936/https://www.404media.co/x-will-stop-paying-people-for-sharing-unlabeled-ai-generated-war-footage/
Paying people to share content was the problem. If you bought a Twitter Premium subscription, your big posts would get you money back. So people from poorer countries would post engagement bait.
Elon Musk already subsidizes fake media generation. So why not use that too, right?