The Pentagon is running an AI propaganda mill targeting Latin America

(theintercept.com)

47 points by Fricken2 hours ago

6 comments

oefrha49 minutes ago
I’d be shocked if the Pentagon isn’t running an AI propaganda mill targeting <insert any region of the world>.
oobeoob1148 minutes ago
Well, yes, obviously. Did you notice there is also one (rather, a whole ecosystem) targeting Russia, one for Iran, one for China, one for EU, one for Japan, etc?
zuzululu13 minutes ago
This is odd. They have the budget to run with real journalists and outlets. Is this some reverse-psychology move? Where they want people to see that its AI and thus not take it seriously? What aim does that achieve?
shakna50 minutes ago
Have they ever stopped? CIA and SOCOM have been dangling themselves into Latin American lives since they were invented. Assassinating presidents, spewing propaganda, assisting in coups.It would be a surprise, it they weren't using AI to add to the mix.
gdss57 minutes ago
yep, with brazil at the center...
- postsantum23 minutes ago
  Brazil did a hecking bad thing. PIX can't be allowed, let alone expand
_3u101 hour ago
Latam already has enough problems with socialism we hardly need more of it.
- zekrioca1 hour ago
 It seems some AI propaganda has already worked on you.
 - ggambetta1 hour ago
 It seems you're not from LatAm.
 - boxed49 minutes ago
 It's strange that people look at the millions dead from starvation from communism, and the quite recent destruction of Venezuela, and still think communism can somehow work this time.
 - wmwragg44 minutes ago
 There is a significant difference between socialism and communism, Americans seem to purposely conflate the two, they are not the same.
 - throwaway2903 minutes ago
 Smells like "no true scotsman" fallacy because they are nearly synonyms. No ordinary person in USSR knew the exact difference, or at least there was no consensus, and you are expecting modern Americans to do better huh? <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism#Etymology" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism#Etymology</a>
 - geysersam37 minutes ago
 There are lots of socialist countries in the world that are doing fine.
 - petesergeant29 minutes ago
 Is this where we pretend a bunch of rich market-capitalist European countries are “socialist” or are you talking about China and Vietnam?
 ben_w22 minutes ago
 For some people, even the government interventions by those specific rich market-capitalist European countries are "too socialist" and get the exact same "didn't you realise Stalin killed millions?" kinds of responses.
 - reeredfdfdf31 minutes ago
 Nordic style social democracy works quite well though. Communism sucks, but too much unregulated Capitalism isn't great either, as we can see in USA and many other countries that suffer from extreme inequality.
 - gambiting44 minutes ago
 It's strange that someone mentions socialism and then another person replies saying communism doesn't work. Are these two the same for you?
 - arowthway28 minutes ago
 Well, they share the same core componnent of disregard for property rights and freedom of contract.
 solid_fuel13 minutes ago
 > disregard for property rights and freedom of contractAre you complaining about taxation and regulation? Both are cornerstones of every successful state in human history.
 loremium10 minutes ago
 Any form of centralized power is bad for the vast majority of civilization. always has been
 gambiting15 minutes ago
 That doesn't answer my question.
 - seszett33 minutes ago
 For Americans it is.Meanwhile, in Europe (I don't know Latin America well enough, although I know a few well-known right-wing leaders that didn't have stellar records) socialist governments consistently have a better record on basically everything from press freedom to economy to public health compared to economically liberal ("centrist") governments. But they're socialist so it doesn't count.
 - cess1123 minutes ago
 Deliberate starvation is more of a capitalist thing. It's not like China or communist parts of India have a big famine problem, while the US and their partners are causing famines in e.g. West Asia right now.Left wing policies actually work pretty well, this is why the US has spent so much resources undermining movements and states trying to implement them, and this is why the Soviet needed nuclear weapons to survive for as long as it did.
 - ben_w13 minutes ago
 A better example of capitalism doing actual famine would be the Irish Potato Famine, which was concurrent with the writing of the actual Communist Manifesto.Communism has also had famine, famously both the Holodomor in the USSR and the Great Leap Forward in China.The only thing that really seems to end famine, is a deliberate policy of subsidising the overproduction of food.
- dyauspitr14 minutes ago
 You can be capitalist without being right wing in this administration cares more about the latter