I know it’s tired to post these but come on, let me have just this one. It’s so fucking dumb.
It’s super easy to dunk on these folks, but trying to inform them is what keeps me up at night. We need more slop ( videos, memes, and infographics ) of stuff from works like the Jakarta Method and Blackshirts and Reds. The sort of informative stuff that we can post under the radar without them realizing we’re educating them. Honestly, this is what I really see ChatGPT type stuff useful for, is just pumping out clickbaity eduslopment.
edit: There’s a frickin news instagram that uses the reporting fish from Spongebob Squarepants that’s currently running a reel with lib takes about Niger. WE need shit like that.
honestly we should all become Yogthos posters, he manages to get under their skin by just posting western media that agrees with what we’ve been saying for years.
Finetune a llama2 on yogthos’ posting history, we can have a hundred of them.
I think people are going to be better at making that slop actually worthwhile than an AI, which might just lie because it has no notion of what is true.
The entire point of using AI is to mass produce. We are vastly outnumbered and underfunded. AI is a force multiplier.
It’s like trying to counter vaccine misinformation with a bot. The bot doesn’t know what’s true, so it’s not very good at spreading scientific understanding or critical thinking.
It’s been researched that showing people contradicting evidence usually doesn’t change their mind from their initial opinion
People believe certain things because they’re predisposed to believe them
If you want to convince these people otherwise, you have to work on their racism and Western chauvinism
Which is why you don’t present it as contradictory, you package it in a manner libs are used to receiving it. There are many ways in which we unconsciously judge something as truthful. Storytelling is basically the art of lying in a manner that is congruent to a person’s worldview. That’s what the Call to Adventure/Refusal of the Hero’s Journey is after all, it’s introducing a world that is familiar to the story’s consumer (whether it conforms to reality is irrelevant, what matters is it conforms to what the consumer is expecting) and then whisking them away to a fantastical world in a congruent manner where you no longer have to follow the rules of the “real” world. There are many ways, however, to appeal to the consumers familiarity, some times it’s tropes, some times it’s aesthetics, the point is to mimic the FEEL while feeding them truthful information.
I mean really, you’re here, I know damn well you’ve seen libs flip their views on a dime simply because corporate media shifted the narrative. Some people they lose, but most people go right along with it. Because the information is not what they’re judging, it’s the packaging. The news media are the trusted source through years of repetition and social proof, the information glides right in the brain holes as long as their feelings towards the news media remains untarnished.
What’s the line? Libs only understand tone, not words? Same principle. It’s about ticking off enough of their boxes of expectation that they never have a reason to question what they’re being told in the first place.
