• huppakee@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Several are from Sri Lanka, the US and elsewhere in Europe, while others are in Vietnam and the Maldives, or linked to Iran and the UAE, according to information from Facebook’s transparency tools, interviews with the content creators and other tell-tale signs on social media such as spelling and accounts they follow.

  • KatherinaReichelt@feddit.org
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    24 hours ago

    Just imagine the mental state of those people following racist AI-slop accounts on fucking Facebook. How braindead do you have to be?

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    1 day ago

    while some of the people behind the accounts are motivated merely by money, others are backed by hostile states such as Russia and Iran.

    The meat of the topic. It’s either a grift or a destabilization effort.

  • rose56@lemmy.zipOP
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    I have noticed this going for quite a while. I have seen London being used for sure, but also others as well. They use AI for many things like these.