i swear to god google deep mind is trying to make me lose my fucking mind this paper-shaped thing they published is so fucking stupid
www.ft.com/content/8d5b...
they looked at twitter and reddit which notoriously have made it much harder to study effectively and also have rules against sharing AI-generated sexual content of an individual making one of the categories they sample inescapably undercounted
if mystery ai hype theater 3000 wanted to spin off a side podcast that exclusively discussed google deepmind, they would probably be able to keep a full production schedule for both shows.
the motivated conclusion that political content is the single biggest category of AI-mediated disinformation, despite their systematic undercount, is so fucking flimsy but ultimately successfully serves to endear politicians to the political project of pouring more money into "combatting disinfo"
