Far-Right Extremist Exploitation of AI and Alt-Tech

"In general, the appraisal of generative AI among the UK far right is negative and there is no serious or sustained engagement with the idea of harnessing AI to achieve their goals – besides a few podcasts, blogs and AI-image generation attempts (see below) – on public-facing channels and platforms."

"Rather than focusing on their own use of AI, much of these groups’ online discourse surrounding these technologies revolves around the intentions of mainstream actors in their adoption and deployment of AI."

"In contrast to the far-right’s adept use of social media, their use of AI in propaganda, recruitment and attacks is still in its infancy."

Contra:

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/10/06/the-folly-of-dall...

> disseminate (usually sanitised) versions of their messages to a wider audience

I think we’re heading to the no return point related with neutrality and/or objectivity on social platforms; and maybe the best heuristic as media consumer could be go to the 2 standard deviations on whatever the message it is and think critically on the between.