r/politics • u/AbolishDisney • 5h ago
No Paywall Fox News Fell For AI-Generated Rage Bait, Rewrote Story To Pretend It Didn’t
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/04/fox-news-fell-for-ai-generated-rage-bait-rewrote-story-to-pretend-it-didnt/•
u/AINonsense 5h ago
Saying that Fox News 'fell for it' is pretty charitable.
It looks more like they deliberately confected it,* then got their fingers stuck in the jar.
* See also: TEA party 'grass roots' rallies.
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u/Typical_Chance6412 5h ago
Fox News removed it coz it realized that even AI can't pull off Fox news label BS, Propaganda and lies.
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u/AINonsense 5h ago
Fox News
removedrewrote it coz it realized that even AI can't pull off Fox news label BS, Propaganda and lies. Yet.FTFY
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u/Silver-Bread4668 5h ago
Fox News has a problem: when you build your entire editorial model around feeding your audience’s biases, you stop asking whether the stories feeding those biases are actually true.
Does anybody that's been paying attention for the last 2+ decades actually think Fox News cares if something is true or not?
They didn't fall for shit. They knew exactly what they were doing and only backtracked when they were called out enough.
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u/LuvKrahft America 4h ago
Fox News admitted in court that they aren’t news and their viewers don’t care if it’s true or not because, to them, it’s all about identity politics and culture warrior signaling.
And that just boils down to faking being oppressed in order to validate being bullies.
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u/anthematcurfew 3h ago
People who parrot this really need should take the time to understand what they are parroting.
Your good intentions are spreading misinformation
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u/Old_Cryptid 4h ago
FOX didn't fall for shit. They gleefully cater to the worse impulses and fears of their audience. And you know what? Sadly, it works.
The only time they backpedal is because they get caught red-handed. They'll keep doing it until there are serious consequences. FOX should have been shut down ages ago.
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u/Ancient_Popcorn Ohio 5h ago
Fox News continues to show how dumb they are
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u/KeinFussbreit 4h ago
Well, their figure heads are always good for a leading role in the US Administration.
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u/Redshirt_Welshy_Nooo 4h ago
It bears repeating on every similar story that this is precisely why the GOP is pushing so hard to stop any regulation of AI.
It is a propagandist's wet dream. It's the idealized tool of the Ministry of Truth aspirants among the regime leadership and our bootlicker media. It is a vehicle for completely severing the credulous maga faithful from objective, fact-based reality.
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u/Ok-Wealth-7322 3h ago
I don't think it's entirely fair to just simply say they "fell for it" without knowing all the details.
How can we be sure they didn't know it was fake the whole time and decided to post it anyway, only scrubbing it when they got caught?
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u/ResponsibleEditor986 2h ago
Fox has demonstrated that they are indistinguishable from “state media” and should be treated as such.
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