What If I Told You…. One of the biggest applications of AI for misinformation hasn’t been online but in the halls of power.
Aging boomer politicians, generals, and major figures are manipulated by showing them AI videos they can’t tell, can’t pause to look at, and certainly can’t digitally examine or geolocate...
“And as you saw Mr President.”
Pay attention. All of them reference seeing “videos” that you aren’t allowed to see, of events which they claim are public record, but appear no-where and no reporting supports...
Sean Hannity was interviewing a world leader and even said “You should show the public the video you showed me it’d really change everyone’s opinion. it changed mine” LIVE ON AIR. And the world leader said some non-comittal maybe, then released nothing.
These aging politicians, media figures, corporate personalities, etc. all casually reference seeing insane videos that would CHANGE EVERYTHING and would have been immediately released to sway public oppinion if they existed or would have been leaked if it would have been in poor taste to be seen directly releasing them (like gore films)
But of course they aren’t released because they’re faked and the internet would immediately peice together that they’re faked with AI, video game, and archival footage from old conflicts... But the aging 60 and 80 year olds who run the world can’t tell.
There was a case where they challeged Greta Thornburg “Would you watch this video it’d change your mind” and she refused telling them to just release it... Then they didn’t and attacked her for not being willing to view evidence contrary to her views.... in a controlled enviroment where she couldn’t scrutinize it or check its authenticity against anything else...
It sounds insane! But if you pay attention all of these politicians, media figures, and even influencers… People who often have ZERO security clearance or any official attachment of real trust or allegiance to the governments showing them this “classified” or “controlled” footage… Regularly reference seeing footage which does not exist in the public domain, for events which are viciously contested in which any of the footage they claim to have seen would be WORLD CHANGING news… Yet all these figures are just left out in the wind repeating “Trust me bro”s for some of the most important occurances of the past decade.
You see this in Ukraine, Israel/Gaza, Iran, and other conflict zones where often people completely unattached to the conflict who would never be given a security clearance… All Reference being shown “The Real Footage” by host governments who won’t release the video on some of the most controversial topics on the modern battlefeild…
I’ve even seen really dark theories that much of the atrocity footage these journalists, influencers, and US politicians and staffer see are real warcrimes… but perpetuated against prisoners of the allegedly victimized regime… That if they let the footage out the actual victim would be identified as being of the opposite faction of what those gullible war tourists are told.
But understand your average Twitter shitposter is vastly less manipulated and controlled in terms of what they see than even what should be sophisticated elite people…
Indeed there is a question to what extent modern militaries protect their own Officers and Leadership from these manipulations… That it should be the duty of any Psychological Warfare devision to defend their own leadership from being manipulated with faked, mislabelled, recycled, or Video Game footage… And yet very plainly they are not given the things I’ve heard out of various figures mouths.
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You're right, but the 'aging boomer' frame is an unhelpful and ageist shortcut. The real vulnerability isn't birth year, but the potent combination of contextual authority (a 'classified' briefing) and the universal power of visual evidence to short-circuit scepticism. The last 5 years has shown young people being just as susceptible to a psyop as anyone older.
The deeper, more disturbing idea is that our trust in official channels and our own eyes is being weaponised. The target isn't a generation; it's anyone in a position of power who can be shown something in a controlled environment where verification is impossible.
A representative literally thought a photoshopped Sam Hyde was a fighter ace lol