PSA: Online randos—real or not—are not good sources

The following short video shows a few examples of quite convincingly realistic-looking, LLM-generated videos. They feature people you don’t know, doing and saying things that are literally incredible[1], who then exhort you to base your opinions on the facts that they’ve just demonstrated.

You Are NOT Immune to AI Propaganda (Even If You Think You Are) by MR RUPP™ (YouTube)

Damn, man: people are just watching so much crap. I’ve never even seen videos like this. I guess it’s because I pull the videos I want to see rather than watch the videos that are pushed at me.

When I watch or listen to a video, it nearly always includes at least one person of whom I’d heard before. And it’s usually boring. And long. And involves a lot of talking. And it’s usually educational.

I don’t watch random shit by random people. This turns out to be a good tactic because these AI videos are convincing. Like, they look pretty real, at least superficially. They’re real enough to influence you if you’re only half paying attention.

Hey, maybe the video linked above was also AI-generated! I don’t know this guy. Damn….

Even if you’re not immune to propaganda, you can do the bare minimum to avoid exposure. Stop getting your opinions from online randos. They used to be just idiots; now, there’s a good change that they’re not even real.

Listen to these obviously important, brilliant, beautiful, and obviously real people