Overseas fakers using AI videos to push a narrative of UK decline, BBC finds

big85

Such is the way to radicalize people - convince them with propaganda that their way of life is at risk.

MrBuddyCasino

On one hand those 3rd world despair porn accounts are a plague. On the other hand, my god has the UK declined.

zipy124

Interestingly on Facebook, Threads and Instagram, Meta keeps trying to push it's video creation AI to me, with short video clips showing exactly this sort of content. So it seems Meta itself is pushing you to create it also.

jacknews

Whereas the true story is that since Brexit, Britain has experienced a renaissance and a new golden age of prosperity, human flourishing, and enlightenment. lol.

SadErn

The decline of personal freedom in the UK is far more troubling than the rise of AI propaganda. 1. Protest rights have become more restricted 2. Online speech is more regulated and more policed 3. Digital privacy has weakened relative to state power

michaelje

The CBC recently reported on videos pretending to be from Canadians promoting similar anti-Canada messaging. They used AI generated copies of real Canadians and hired voice actors. They use this divisive content to drive views and ad revenue: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/alberta-separatist-youtube-ch...

hmry

Part of a larger pattern. If you're into travel blogs YouTube will serve you an endless barrage of videos with photoshopped thumbnails, exclusively containing fearmongering about whatever country or city they're visiting. This has been going on since pre-AI times. On social media, you'll see plenty of AI-generated videos of members of $GROUP acting badly. One way to make people hate each other even more. It's been known for a decade+ that platforms paying by engagement / interaction incentivizes people to post things that cause strong negative emotions. Fear and hate sell in the algorithmic engagement economy.

instig007

Don't trust BBC, they are the state propaganda machine. Draw your own conclusions, there's plenty of UK-based channels that provide the current footage from towns and cities around the country. https://www.youtube.com/@theallornothingpodcastwith4442/vide... https://www.youtube.com/@ukexplored/videos https://www.youtube.com/@wanderingturnip/videos https://www.youtube.com/@Turdtowns/videos

willi59549879

Propaganda machine saying other sources are propaganda

anonymouscaller

no paywall: https://web.archive.org/web/20260515071859/https://www.bbc.c...

rurban

Fake? These viewpoints won the majority in the brexit election. So it's a pushed narrative that won the majority of the public view. As if Farage bought a cheaper Sri Lanka media consultant to win the next elections.

LocalH

Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia. The Eastasians are our best allies. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. The Eurasians are our best allies.