Fake News Quotes

“I’m Ron Redish, one of the many news puppets that tell you what to believe and what to think. If a run-of-the-mill person, who isn’t a trusted and official news anchor like myself, says something that differs from the official news, you can be sure it’s misinformation or a flat-out lie. Such a person is for sure one or more of the following: a sexist; a racist; a misogynist; a Nazi; is part of a different political party than yourself; a terrorist, domestic or otherwise; a conspiracy theorist—or whatever label works best for you in shutting down your freethinking mind and hating the person so you won’t listen to them. Take your pick. Feel free to mix and match.”
― Jasun Ether, The Beasts of Success

“All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake "public opinion" for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.”
― Vladimir Lenin, Revolution!: Sayings of Vladimir Lenin

“In this era of fake news and paid news artificial intelligence is more and more used as a political tool to manipulate and dictate common people, through big data, biometric data, and AI analysis of online profiles and behaviors in social media and smart phones. But the days are not far when AI will also control the politicians and the media too.”
― Amit Ray

“Alternative facts and fake news are just other names for propaganda”
― Johnny Corn

“The official philosophies of the totalitarian regimes unanimously brand as nonsensical the idea that there exists a single objective truth valid for everybody. The criterion of "truth," they say, is not agreement with reality, but agreement with the spirit of a race or nation or class—that is, racial, national or utilitarian. Pushing to their limits the biological, pragmatist, activist theories of truth, the official philosophies of the totalitarian regimes deny the inherent value of thought. For them thought is not a light but a weapon: its function, they say, is not to discover reality as it is, but to change and transform it with the purpose of leading us towards what is not. Such being the case, myth is better than science and rhetoric that works on the passions preferable to proof that appeals to the intellect.”
― Alexandre Koyré, Réflexions sur le mensonge

“Efectul știrii este mai important decât adevărul ei.”
― Alexandru Bordian, Casa Inglezi

“[T]hey had not taught the boy to lie. But they had not taught him to know truth from lies.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, City of Illusions

“Today, democracy is being weakened by lies that come in waves and pound our senses the way a beach is assaulted by the surf. Leaders who play by the rules are having trouble staying ahead of a relentless news cycle and must devote too much effort trying to disprove stories that seem to come out of nowhere and have been invented solely to do them in.

All this has consequences. Small "d" democrats riding to power on the promise of change often begin to lose popularity the day they take office. Globalization, which is not an ideological choice but a fact of life, has become for many an evil to be fought at all costs. Capitalism is considered a four-letter word by an increasing number of people who--if not for its fruits--would be without food, shelter, clothing, and smartphones. In a rising number of countries, citizens profess a lack of faith in every public institution and the official data they produce.”
― Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

“Age of AI (The Sonnet)

Welcome to the age of AI, where algorithms
grow bigger, and minds get smaller,
where freedom is the new prison,
character retreats as cave dweller.

Welcome to the age of AI,
where deceit is the new creativity,
where hate is a human right,
malinformation is a legal industry.

Welcome to the age of AI,
where algorithms are still nonsentient,
but so are the people that use them,
mindlessness is trend of the new sapiens.

Welcome to the age of AI, where global goals
are still a dream, only more distant.
Prove me wrong - I beg of you -
Stand up and behave, a proper Sapiens!”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“De acordo com um relatório da Organização para a Cooperação e Desenvolvimento Econômico (OCDE), o Brasil enfrenta desafios significativos em relação à capacidade de distinguir informações verdadeiras de falsas. A pesquisa revelou que, em média, 54% das pessoas no Brasil conseguem fazer essa distinção, enquanto a percepção geral em outros países é de 60%. Essa diferença coloca o Brasil abaixo da média global. Além disso, a sátira (como os memes) foi identificada como a linguagem mais fácil de ser confundida com notícias falsas, apontada por 71% dos entrevistados.”
― Jorge Guerra Pires, Falácias: Aprenda a identificar e rebater argumentações problemáticas, mas comumente usadas (Inteligência Artificial, Democracia, e Pensamento Crítico)

“Warning to the Spellbound
(Sonnet from the future)

In our times we wrote our own literature,
In our times we wrote our own music.
In our times we wrote our own code,
In our times we wrote our own poetry.

Ours was the last human generation,
where humans shaped their own society.
The day you traded comfort for originality,
you forfeited the right to life and liberty.

Today you are nothing, you mean thing,
you are no more significant than woodworm.
You are just puppets to large gibberish models,
backboneless victims of algorithm addiction.

If you can still hear my voice, AI is still adolescent,
Once in control, it'll erase all records of humanness.
We can't yet treat human bias, 'n here comes AI bias,
Abandon all non-vital tech, return to simpler ways.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“AI is the white colonizer of the modern world, headed to destroy everything that is sweet, original and meaningful about human life. Unless you clip its wings while there is time, like the British empire, AI empire will bring back the dark ages, not light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“There's nothing uglier than an endangered mind, reaping the ruins of its own invention.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“There's no greater shame than the human universe rendered legless by its senseless pursuit of nuts.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Algorithm that generates deceit is a bug.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“A photograph is reality taken out of context.”
― Criss Jami

“It used to be said that a picture is worth a thousand words; however today, in journalism and across social media, a picture is worth a thousand out-of-context speculations.”
― Criss Jami

“AI will not replace you, but those using AI will - thus goes the AI commercial! Here's what'll actually happen, AI will not destroy the world, but frauds using AI will.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“If you scroll long enough,
your phone will become your grave.
In the name of telecommunication,
algorithms generate the new stoneage.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Data is Power (Sonnet)

Coming from a childhood passion for
electronics, initially I fostered a
favorable outlook on Artificial Intelligence,
but as further implications are beginning to
unfold, I'm developing an ominous distaste.

There is no question about the computational
capacities of AI, but humans are not equipped
to fathom, how to apply such power positively.
Then there is the question of instant garbage
generated by lazy prompts, passed as creativity.

It took 3 years of sweat and vision
for Michelangelo to sculpt David,
today AGI can do that in mere hours.
Does such instant cosmetic art have
any value! AI art is just fancy knockoff.

Human mind seeks understanding,
AI seeks data - lots and lots of data.
AI's hunger for data is matched only
by the billionaire's hunger for power.

How much power is enough power,
particularly now when data is power!
What's the point of power and data,
if they just empower criminal behavior!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“If misinformation is inaccurate information, and disinformation is deliberate falsehoods — what's a simple way to remember the difference? 'Mis' for mistake, 'D' for deliberate.' I came up with it and it works for me!

(Link to full anthology in profile website)”
― Stewart Stafford

“The advent of the digital age reshapes the way we perceive information, opinion, and truth.

As modern ecosystems grow dependent on information reliability, it becomes essential to rethink the notion of materiality in a dematerialized reality.”
― Stephane Nappo

“I bend arrows into ornaments,
heckles only tickle my soul.
I turn junk into jewel,
I reclaim the fakes as fuel.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“There are many fake memes
floating about the internet,
one of them misquotes me saying -
'spare the toilet, spoil the floor.'

I turn junk into jewel,
I reclaim the fakes as fuel.
Spare the toilet, spoil the floor.
Spare the fascist, spoil the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you can alter, even by a milimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.”
― James Baldwin

“At the UN (and generally in Politics) "Rule #1: The Truth Is Not a Matter of Fact; It Is a Product of Consensus.”
― Michael Soussan, Backstabbing for Beginners: A Crash Course in International Diplomacy

“Fake news made social media injurious, and now AI slop will render it redundant.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Internet overrun by bots and AI content, defeats its purpose of existence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Yes, all the newspapers do say the same thing. That's true. But so it is the same thing that all the frogs croak before a storm. One can hear nothing for them.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“All slander, and most gossip, are cancerous to truth - not just because of the way they spread - but because of the uncontrollable growth they amass around a person's true character; and while this obvious parallel is perhaps known by most, only few care, as evidenced by their prevalence in everyday life.”
― Criss Jami