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Meta has a suggestion for folks who forgot to go outside and look at the Northern Lights on Thursday night: just use AI to fake it! But Threads users who replied to Meta’s idea, posted along with three AI-generated images of the Aurora Borealis Meta last night, seem to disagree.

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[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Meta loves to spread misinformation, because political parties and advocacy groups will spend millions on advertising to counteract (or boost) it.

Spreading misinformation is extremely profitable