The Intertoobs Run On Fear*

When It Comes To AI In Elections, We’re Unprepared For What’s Coming https://t.co/iDjXczmITy via @TPM

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 29, 2023

Fear which, like an old steam engine, must be stoked constantly. So AI is the next horseman of the Apocalypse which will doom us all.

Since nukes and the internet and Trump didn’t do it.

I mean, how does AI make this worse?

fascinating story about how right-wing media, including Fox News, irresponsibly ran with a confused police report about an incident in rural North Dakota to frame up Biden as inciting deadly violence when he in fact did no such thing https://t.co/xKUOTRx4IN

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 29, 2023

Fewer staff writers? Increased unemployment for professional liars? More pictures of Republicans in 19th century (style) military uniforms?

*(and what is outrage but the fear that somebody, somewhere, is getting to something you can’t, or that you don’t like?)