"Surely the point of AI is to remove drudgery from our lives, not automate creativity." Indeed. And this seems good cake-eatery from #C4Dispatches - anyone actually recommend seeing it, or is the review real enough? #AIontelly
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/oct/21/channel-4-first-ai-presenter-dispatches

Anyone with any interest in how Trump is helping Putin should watch tonight’s #c4dispatches - it’s pretty shocking, even if you think you knew what is happening

“Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!”
Terry Pratchett; The Wee Free Men
#Discworld #C4Dispatches #RoyalsRippingUsOff #AbolishTheMonarchy

Channel 4 #Dispatches attempt to use #AI #DeepFake political clips to influence which party swing voters would decide to vote for in an election
https://youtu.be/7vXlBZlV7Ks
#C4dispatches #ukpol #GE2024 #UKelection #channel4

I don't want to spoil that "Can AI Steal Your Vote?" thing in case anybody's planning to watch it later, but geez are the results unexpected. It's no surprise that the propaganda had an effect, but I'm amazed that it prompts so many people to side with the Tories given the past 14 years of actual unquestionable history that all the participants are presumably familiar with.
#c4dispatches

#c4dispatches thank you for opening my eyes wider to the utter horror in Gaza.

Here's #ElonMusk defending #RussellBrand #c4dispatches. Elon is a conspiracist who is now placing himself squarely between his Xitter users, and truth and justice

Kudos and gratitude to Daniel Sloss for being the only person willing to speak on the record about Russell Brand's reputation as a sex offender. Tolerating Brand is a litmus test a hell of a lot of people failed. #c4dispatches #russellbrand
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/fife/4732492/russell-brand-daniel-sloss/

So the news absolutely no-one was expecting has broken. This from Popbitch earlier in the week... #russellBrand #c4dispatches