A coordinated campaign to flood the internet with racist images is using Bing and DALL-E 3’s text-to-image AI tool.
  • Heresy_generator@kbin.social
    739·
    1 year ago

    “We’re making propaganda for fun. Join us, it’s comfy,” the 4chan thread instructs. “MAKE, EDIT, SHARE.”

    It’s just some random fun, guys; it’s not at all a coordinated campaign by white supremacist fascists to inundate people with racist and fascist propaganda.

    • kitonthenet@kbin.social
      104·
      1 year ago

      We’re making propaganda… Join us… the 4chan thread instructs

      So the campaign is coordinated

      4chan

      The visual guide instructs potential posters to create images that are “Funny, provocative. Redpilling message (Jews involved in 9/11). Easy to Understand.” Under an image that shows a crying Pepe the frog with a needle next to its arm and a gun pointed to his head, the guide says “vaccines enforced by violence.” Under an AI-generated image of two Black men with gold chains chasing a white woman, the guide said “redpilling message (migrant crime in scandinavia).”

      So they’re white supremacist fascists

      MAKE, EDIT, SHARE

      So they are inundating people with it

      whether you think it’s random fun or not is subjective, but the way they’ve described it is accurate.

  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
    501·
    1 year ago

    Sounds like some people still need to learn about the goat fucker corollary: if you fuck a goat as a joke, you’re a goat fucker. There’s no “irony” or “just trolling” exception.

    • DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Even during those times and before they were doing butt sharpies and pools closed. 4chan had always been for the mindless cheap lulz

  • popemichael@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    321·
    1 year ago

    I miss the times when they sent Pitbull to Alaska or Taylor Swift to a deaf school. Hell, I even miss Boaty McBoat face.

    At least those were fun and interesting.

    • EdibleFriend@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      That was around the time they turned Tay the twitter AI into a racist woman hater. 4chan has always been just…chaos. Sometimes they do evil. Sometimes they do good.

      Like one time they used their autism powers to blow up Syrian rebels? But also around that same time they just…broke Shia LaBeouf.

  • torknorggren@lemm.eeEnglish
    26·
    1 year ago

    “Flood the internet” apparently means making shit for other trolls and posting it on an image board for trolls.

    • fubo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      203·
      1 year ago

      Teaching losers that Nazism is normal (and even fun!) is not harmless.

  • HarkMahlberg@kbin.social
    258·
    1 year ago

    Oh look it’s exactly what I predicted with generative AI. We’ve wound the clocks back to 2014, when Russia used 4chan and reddit to fuel organized campaigns of hatred that paved the way for the alt right, Trump, and his ilk.

  • jray4559@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    141·
    1 year ago

    Really? We’re doing this again?

    Haven’t we all learned by now that there will always be a part of 4chan that will do something bad purely because they think it’s funny? Just ignore these people. If we don’t give them attention and doom about them, the five people on the site being little contrarians will get bored in a week, and they’ll stop doing their stupid racism garbage.

    Simple as.

  • Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    124·
    1 year ago

    What this group of people do not realize is that they are truly not as anonymous as they think especially as AI gets more and more powerful. I look forward to the day they are all exposed along with others who think it is “fun” to be an asshole online.

  • randon31415@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    4channer post method of tricking 4chaners into doing things that might get them fired, for the lols

  • Hanabie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    73·
    1 year ago

    I guess you’d call this growing pains, and it’s good this happens this early and is being done in such a manner. There’s just no way to reason with corporate, you have to point a gun at its head to make it move.

    • HarkMahlberg@kbin.social
      7·
      1 year ago

      There was a way to exploit the flaws in generative AI without actually contributing to propaganda and disinformation machines. Believe it or not, the “Mickey Mouse holding a Garand” in Facebook’s AI stickers would be preferable to show corporations how AI can harm their business interests in the hopes they drop it or reform it.