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From shrimp Jesus to fake self-portraits, AI-generated images have become the latest form of social media spam
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NBC News / April Glaser and Brandy Zadrozny / May 14
“Among the reasons misinformation is spreading so rapidly is that its believers use unverifiable firsthand accounts, often shared on under-moderated social media features like Instagram stories and Facebook comment sections, where personal narratives that have long fueled the anti-vaccination movement spread even as some of the largest social media companies have struggled to curtail vaccine misinformation.”
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