“They leftists don’t want this to work,” he said. “They want it to fail.”
Social media has become a strange alternate universe filled with garbage, propaganda and lies. There was a time when you could actually get breaking news on social media. In some cases you can, but fake news proliferates to such an extent that it’s gotten to be worse than the regular media. It was bad before, but AI has made it around a thousand times worse by letting everyone create their own reality using AI images and even videos, like the fake video that showed Netanyahu being killed, and of course AI answers that people quote as if they were actually authoritative.
That mass of AI social media slop hit home when reading this account by an American professor working in Israel.
I moved my husband and four kids to Israel in late January for a Fulbright Fellowship, arriving weeks before the war began. Since then, I have become a most accidental correspondent: the person everyone back home texts when they cannot tell the difference between what is on their feed and reality on the ground.
