This YouTube video ("Can AI-generated hoaxes fool us all?" by Precursor Ventures) examines how AI-generated hoaxes can exploit existing biases and emotions to become widely believed. In the provided excerpt the speaker describes such a hoax as "perfectly tuned" rage bait that provokes existing feelings and resembles politically motivated misinformation.
And I think the thing about it was it was perfectly tuned. Rage bait. It took, like, a lot of the things that people, you know, conspiratorially or, or in a dystopian way think about. These apps and services kind of plugged right into. I knew it all along. This. This totally fits my mental model of, like, how I think people wanted it to be true. They wanted to be true. I think that's why it was so popular. Super. Like, I always knew these things had no moral fiber, and they're exploitative. And look at how they even talk about the people that work on their platforms. So it reminded me a lot of the politically motivated misinformation, because it tends to play on biases or feelings that are already present in the person, and they provoke them in very direct and profound ways. And this one did that for sure.
