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AI Used to Promote Non-Existent Evacuation Flights From the Middle East (www.bellingcat.com)
submitted 2 months ago by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] markz@suppo.fi 102 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

AI generated or not, marketing Dubai evacuation flights with influencer selfies is too funny

[–] abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No matter what you think of Dubai, this is cruel.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How?

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This endangers civilians.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 5 points 2 months ago

So does western nations lining up to support bombing Iranian civilians.

[–] blinfabian@feddit.nl 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

is there really no english word for leedvermaak? as a dutch guy that is strange

[–] LePoisson@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As a dirty American, we just borrow schadenfreude from German usually in my experience.

There are English phrases that approximate it - like "taking enjoyment in another's misery" but not really a word, at least one I can think of.

[–] blinfabian@feddit.nl 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

just translate it literally and adopt it as an official english word: Miseryentertainment

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yo can even put a dash in-between the two parts to hide the fact that you stole superior German grammar

[–] laut_sprecher@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or just go the neologism way that english loves: misertainment

[–] 5too@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Eh, that seems to suggest it's entertainment for or about misers, rather than misery

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’ve noticed that high tech AI generates photorealistic images in ways that reveal a lot of complexion details that most consumer phones hide. Zoom in, look at those big blotchy freckles.

[–] ptu@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

5 years ago I would’ve thought that fabricating a convincing face would be difficult and fabricating a lamp post would be easy, but here we are.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Finally! A use case for AI! Oh wait we already knew it‘s used in all sorts of scams and criminal activity.

[–] sik0fewl@piefed.ca 1 points 2 months ago

It still does, but it used to, too.