Impact of Fake News in our Society Today

[o48o]

Don't be surprised, I know how to spot on but I am speaking for those that have no idea if they're AI generated or not. And it's sad to see that some people that produces those type of contents are fooling people around and they're not stopping once they see that views to their contents are shooting up. Like with the google veo 3, many of those 7 seconds footages that are knitted together to make some story, they're obvious AI generated but some still believe they're real.

Well i give you that. SOME people don't probably care if something is AI generated or modified. I mean Trump insisted that Abrego Garcia had 'MS-13' tattooed on his knuckles, even though they weren't even tried to embed them in on the picture he was talking about.

And it's not like most of his cult would care about something they could confirm as it takes 2 minutes of their time. And sad thing is that even when it's video, audio or news from from pre-AI era, some people are going to say it's AI when it fits their narrative. I mean they already probably believe to flat earth already.

[internetional]

AI can produce more fake news faster then people can debunk them

AI could actually help with fact-checking. But when I tried using neural networks for this, several times it happened that the AI invented sources. It provided links and even specific quotes, but it turned out that either the source didn't exist, or the statement wasn't there. In this sense, AI also makes recognizing the truth more complicated.

[o48o]

AI can produce more fake news faster then people can debunk them

AI could actually help with fact-checking. But when I tried using neural networks for this, several times it happened that the AI invented sources. It provided links and even specific quotes, but it turned out that either the source didn't exist, or the statement wasn't there. In this sense, AI also makes recognizing the truth more complicated.

Sure, but currently it isn't dependable at that. Deeper you dig, more things it's likely to invent itself. Not too long ago i asked it about changing memory to my laptop model and it actually started to argue that my model had screws in places it didn't have. And when i asked for sources for it, they were all unrelated.

It's still just a complex language model and nothing more, and when we start to rely on the idea hat it can help with something like that, and we are actually using more time when we need to check the answers for both to original post and the AI. And since AI is being trained all around from all the net, in the end it can be using it's own disinformation as a source, as amount of that is going to be overwhelming.  

[POPOLUV]

I'm sorry to say this about the impact of fake news in our society today, to be honest speaking most people are misusing the work of AI in producing more fake news to the society because a friend of my was scam few days ago with on video created using  AI  that almost get the family so worried, so the impact of fake news in the society today has increased that if someone is not careful enough to know the one that is a true news, the person might end up believing and spreading news that fake, so it is always advisable to be much careful when it comes to news because fake news is everywere.

[Findingnemo]

People have this weird attention-seeking thing that makes them to nut job irrespective of whatever the outcome of their action will be. Don't believe anything you see on social media because people use it to propagate their ideas even if they don't have any evidence the back what their claims and also they simply post an old video of attacking on someone and use a caption to spread hatred towards a certain religion or something and the list goes on and on.

[Muba20]

One should be aware of social media news. Most of the fake news and rumors are spread through these platforms. Not only small scams but also big scams have been done through this social media.

There was an incident in Los Angeles, USA where a 66-year-old woman got involved in a relationship with Steve Burton, the actor of a series called “General Hospital”, after connecting him on Facebook. She was deceived through fake profiles, messages and Video clips and due to the fraud, she paid $81304 through Bitcoin and other platforms and suffered losses.

Also, there have been many incidents in the USA where fraudsters have used social media to deceive people by using fake identities and suggesting that they use investment platforms. Not only in the United States, but in all corners of the world, there are fraudulent groups who are only creating fake news or other deceptions and causing harm.

[Pauldesaints]

The impact of fake news in the society can never be overemphasized,it have triggered war where properties worthy millions of dollars were lost including lives.some people deliberately engaged in fake news sharing just to attract traffic on there Facebook pages for monetary gain in the expense of others that it will negatively affect.it will be imperative if government should enact law to punish offenders to checkmate there excess.it has done more harm than good in our society.drastic measures are required to curbs it's more spreading especially at the social media handles.

[Somto9Light]

This  topic reminds me of what I saw on tiktok earlier as I was going through tiktok reels, I came across a Post where they posted one tiktok influencer this lady is well known for creating tiktok reels and she's from uganda I was shocked when I saw a post where she was lying helplessly so I was skeptical so I had to search for her main page to see when last she posted a reels. then when I checked I discovered that she made a post about 13hours ago meanwhile the Post that I saw her lying helplessly was made before this post then I was convinced that the information is not coming from a reliable source, but from someone who is just trying to ruing her reputation all in the name of wanting to grow her Page.

[AYOBA]

Fake news has become a very big problem in our societies, you need to first doubt any news that you hear on social media until you verify from different sources which is not supposed to be so. The next level of fake news is using AI to impersonate people's voices and images, especially notable people to spread fake news, people will think that it is the person that is being impersonated that is speaking, many people have been scammed through this means. It is worrisome that trusted news sites have been used to spread these fake news and it is reducing their reputations, they really should be verifying news before allowing people to post on their sites.

To be honest, the way individuals distribute fake news is terrible. Because it has produced many difficulties in society, and since AI has existed, everything became easier for them. They immediately created fake news and put it on social media platforms where a large number of people can view it. Even worse is when they upload images of people and write "RIP" on them. That they’ve already passed through are unaware that all of this is affecting their reputation, but because they do not have any work to perform, they continue to waste their time by spreading fake informations.