The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #174300   Message #4236729
Posted By: Sandra in Sydney
10-Mar-26 - 05:10 PM
Thread Name: Artificial Intelligence - what could go wrong?
Subject: RE: Artificial Intelligence - what could go wrong?
Foreign Facebook accounts using AI Pauline Hanson to manipulate Australians “ALBANESE LOSES IT AS BARNABY JOYCE TEARS INTO HIM OVER NEW HATE SPEECH LAWS – LABOR’S CENSORSHIP AGENDA EXPOSED!”

“Pauline Hanson and Lee Hanson unveil never-seen duet – a song connecting them across time.”

“SHOCKING NEWS FROM AUSTRALIA: BILLIONAIRE GINA RINEHART FULLY SPONSORS THE EDUCATION OF THE CHILD PRODIGY WHO SAVED HIS FAMILY.”

What do all of these stories have in common? None are real. They’re part of a trove of Facebook posts created by overseas-based accounts that ABC NEWS Verify has examined in detail.

The posts use a mix of AI-generated and genuine images combined with compelling but completely fake stories.

They’ve attracted hundreds of thousands of likes, comments and shares – many from very real Australian voters who appear to believe the fake news they are being served ...(read on)

Barnaby Joyce - right wing politician

Pauline Hanson - right wing racist politician   

14 year old child prodigy swam to a distant beach to save his mother & younger siblings who were in a canoe swept out to sea.