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#manipulation

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»"KI-Bildgeneratoren sind Nostalgiemaschinen und Klischeeverstärker": Programme wie Midjourney seien wie gemacht, um rechte Weltbilder zu entwerfen, sagt Roland Meyer. Der Medienwissenschaftler erklärt, ob sich diese Tools auch für Kritik kapern lassen. Und was es bedeutet, wenn die Trump-Regierung Bildarchive säubern lässt.«

Die KI wird bewusst für Konservatismus eingesetzt aber anscheinend wollen dies die wenigsten wahrnehmen.

🤢 woz.ch/2520/roland-meyer/ki-bi

www.woz.ch · Roland Meyer: «KI-Bildgeneratoren sind Nostalgiemaschinen und Klischeeverstärker»Programme wie Midjourney seien wie gemacht, um rechte Weltbilder zu entwerfen, sagt Roland Meyer. Der Medienwissenschaftler erklärt, ob sich diese Tools auch für Kritik kapern lassen. Und was es bedeutet, wenn die Trump-Regierung Bildarchive säubern lässt.

Capitalism depends on the use of human shields.

I go to the understaffed pharmacy and they screw up *every* order. I want to scream at the pharmacist and the assistant, but it's not their fault that the company won't put more people on duty.

My medical provider cancels my appointment and makes me call *two separate numbers* and wait on hold for a long time. I want to scream at the scheduler, but it's not their fault.

#humanshields protect profits.

Never try to prove something to someone who uses #manipulation as a weapon.

They will find a way to keep doing it.

Like my father, who found a way to be garbage to me despite being an objectively good person.

Like my ex girlfriend who accused me of cheating. When she found no proof, she accused me of flirting with other women WANTING to.

It was never about being a good son. It was never about being faithful.

It was about making me always prove myself for control.

Ethics has always been a game. People who wield ethics as a tool perfectly know how to influence the attitudes and moods of others. But such people are weak in logic. Why is ethics the opposite of logic? And why people with good logic will never understand ethical people?

worldtypology.com/2022/02/20/w

What Is Ethics? What Is The Purpose Of It?
World Typology · What Is Ethics? The Purpose Of ItWhat is ethics? If you write this term in a search engine, then this time the Internet gives us the correct answer. And this is because people who have a strong working ethic prepared these explana…
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@overholt It's even more: a fascist system always begins to wipe out knowledge for better manipulating the masses.

And yes, Trump read a book. In a famous Vanity Fair interview in 1990, Marie Brenner discovered that he had read Hitler's speeches with delight. vanityfair.com/news/2015/08/do

Vanity Fair · 7 Takeaways from Vanity Fair’s 1990 Profile of Donald TrumpBy Vanity Fair