Source: Liberal Currents
by Hagen Blix & Ingeborg Glimmer
“Without a doubt, AI has already automated the production of bullshit — that is, text and images that do not commit the producers of that content to any kind of truth. Where these are intended to act as political speech, we can see the resonance between AI and far right politics, where texts and images are often used to manipulate the emotional valence of a particular topic and amplify its affective resonances. … Is any of this an issue of hype, of some discrepancy between promised capabilities and real capabilities? Or is the root issue that the very real affordances of very real AI potentiate fascist political aims and methods? Is the problem that some model output is untrue, or is it that AI models operate akin to the online troll, who just asks questions and just says (bullshit) things for the lulz?” (09/16/25)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hype-wont-save-us/