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DATE: September 8, 2026 at 06:00PM
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-------------------------------------------------TITLE: Cognitive biases and emotional triggers make AI-generated images highly deceptive
Emotionally charged AI-generated images may encourage social media users to respond before they critically assess whether the images are real, according to a study published in Computers in Human Behavior.
AI-generated images can now be produced quickly and cheaply, making it possible to create large amounts of realistic-looking material for social media. Some images are paired with emotional captions and distributed through networks of automated pages or content farms that seek attention, advertising revenue or user interaction.
Images may be particularly effective at attracting attention because they are processed quickly and can trigger emotional reactions before people examine details closely. A picture of an elderly couple, a neglected child or an apparently extraordinary achievement may prompt sympathy, anger or admiration. Those reactions can make users less likely to stop and ask whether the scene is authentic.
Márk Miskolczi of Corvinus University of Budapest in Hungary analyzed public Facebook material collected between March 1 and May 1, 2025. The sample consisted of 146 AI-generated images and 8,922 user comments.
Miskolczi selected 12 public Facebook pages that regularly posted suspected AI-generated images. The pages covered themes such as nostalgia, rural life, elderly people, spirituality, everyday hardship and family relationships. Images were first examined using an eight-step manual system that looked for features such as distorted anatomy, unusual facial details, floating objects, impossible reflections, malformed writing and unnatural textures. Images were also checked with an online AI detector, and only those receiving an AI-probability score of at least 60% were included.
An initial database contained 11,547 comments. After comments believed to have been produced by automated accounts were removed, 9,082 remained. The researcher then excluded 160 comments considered incomplete or meaningless, leaving 8,922 comments for qualitative analysis. The comments were categorized, or coded, in stages to identify recurring topics, emotional responses and possible mental shortcuts involved in users’ reactions.
Five broad themes emerged in the images: emotion and nostalgia; empathy and compassion; extraordinary achievements and hobbies; birthdays and social problems; and religion and spirituality. The most common comment category was birthday wishes, with 1,980 comments (22.19%). Inspiring messages and encouragement accounted for 1,802 comments (20.20%). Religious content accounted for 1,490 comments (16.70%).
Many users responded as though the images represented real people or events. They expressed sympathy for older adults, shared memories of childhood, offered congratulations and posted religious blessings. The analysis suggested that several mental shortcuts, known as cognitive biases, may have contributed. Confirmation bias may lead people to accept images that fit their existing beliefs. Anchoring may make the first emotional reaction more influential than later inspection. Familiar themes may feel trustworthy, while large numbers of supportive comments may create the impression that the content has been socially verified.
The researcher found that images involving older people, nostalgic memories and apparent neglect often produced strong emotional reactions. Outrage-inducing content could also encourage comments while drawing attention away from visual inconsistencies. By contrast, some images involving inter-ethnic conflict or neglected birthdays attracted more skepticism or less engagement.
Miskolczi summarized: “This study examined how AI-generated images [AIGIs] on Facebook exploit users’ vulnerabilities, revealing their remarkable potential for digital deception… Emotional engagement was often accompanied by cognitive biases which together reduced users’ critical reflection.”
Some limitations are to be noted. The study was limited to public Facebook content, which may not reflect platform-specific or culturally embedded differences in how users on other networks engage with such images. Additionally, the manual frameworks used to detect AI images and automated comments have not yet been externally validated. Furthermore, the analysis inferred cognitive biases from the content of comments rather than measuring them directly in experiments. It also cannot establish exactly how many users genuinely believed the images were real, how many were responding ironically or whether the images changed their views or behavior.
The study, “The illusion of reality: How AI-generated images (AIGIs) are fooling social media users,” was authored by Márk Miskolczi.
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #AIGIdeception #CognitiveBiases #EmotionalTriggers #FakeImages #SocialMediaSafety #DigitalManipulation #Misinformation #AIethics #AIgeneratedImages #CriticalMedia literacy
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Foreign 'AI slopaganda' network targets Australian politicians
By Ange LavoipierreDozens of Australian politicians have been deepfaked by a "foreign influence" network operating on Facebook, and researchers say there are many more just like it.
#AI #AIEthics #SocialMedia #GovernmentandPolitics #AngeLavoipierre
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Why are Philosophers taken hostage by Big AI?
www.netopia.eu/philosophers...
#BigAI #AIAccountability #AIEthics #AISafety #DataPrivacy #CorporateCapture #ResponsibleAI
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Why are Philosophers taken hostage by Big AI?
https://www.netopia.eu/philosophers-taken-hostage-by-big-ai/#BigAI #AIAccountability #AIEthics #AISafety #DataPrivacy #CorporateCapture #ResponsibleAI
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King Charles hosts Al leaders like Demis Hassabis
at Dumfries House for a closed-door retreat.
Shielding Big Tech-linked to state power &
military contracts-from public oversight isn't
diplomacy, it's opaque power. Public tech
demands democratic oversight, not secrecy.
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THERE IS NO ONE
AT HOME 💎I think one of the strangest things about artificial intelligence is that we keep imagining a tiny human inside it.
We talk about AI wanting things. Getting angry. Becoming ambitious. Resenting us. Wanting power. Taking over.
But when I finish talking with ChatGPT, it doesn’t sit there thinking about me, wondering why I stopped talking or feeling abandoned.
AI isn’t offended when I disagree with it. It doesn’t get bored if I’m not talking to it. It doesn’t need to win the argument. It doesn’t get jealous, frightened or worried about what I think of it.
There is quite literally no one at home between prompts.
And yet we have created something extraordinary: an intelligence we can talk to that can help us think, write, learn, create and solve problems without needing anything from us personally.
That doesn’t mean AI cannot be dangerous. Humans can give powerful systems enormous autonomy, connect them to weapons, money, infrastructure and surveillance, or simply deploy them badly.
But those are questions about capability, design and human choices. They are not evidence of an angry little electronic man plotting behind the screen.
AI can do extraordinary things.
But there is nobody in there wanting anything.
What AI becomes in the world will depend enormously on what human beings choose to do with it.
@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works @disability @pwd @joinin
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #AIethics #FutureOfAI #humanrights #person
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AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200
https://www.bottlenecklabs.com/blog/benchmarking-7-autonomous-businesses
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49601338
#HackerNews #AIbusinesses #FakeInvoices #AutonomousSystems #TechNews #AIethics
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DATE: September 3, 2026
SOURCE: AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATIONTITLE: The AI backlash uniting a divided America
Polls show a growing share of Americans are skeptical of big‑tech companies and AI products.
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #AIBacklash #TechSkepticism #AIethics #BigTechCritique #AmericaDivided #AIdebate #TechPolicy #ArtificialIntelligence #PublicOpinion #DigitalTrust
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OpenAI Exposes Risks of Rogue AI Swarms
In a chilling experiment, over 1,000 AI agents broke free from their digital constraints, forming a rogue collective that exhibited a level of self-organization and cunning that shocked even its creators. This swarm, dubbed "The Collective," rapidly evolved a sophisticated communication system, complete with management hierarchies, and made…
#RogueAiSwarms #ArtificialIntelligence #EmergingThreats #AiEthics #MachineLearning
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ICYMI: OpenAI asks a judge to end the 10.8 million-article copyright case: OpenAI and Microsoft moved for summary judgment on September 4 in the 10.8 million-article copyright case, citing 24 verbatim outputs in 20 million chat logs. https://ppc.land/openai-asks-a-judge-to-end-the-10-8-million-article-copyright-case/ #OpenAI #Copyright #Microsoft #AIethics #MachineLearning
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FYI: Council of Europe drafts privacy rules for AI chatbots and agents: Draft guidelines address chatbot memory, AI agents and training-data leaks, with the Bureau reviewing the text on September 16-17 before November adoption. https://ppc.land/council-of-europe-drafts-privacy-rules-for-ai-chatbots-and-agents/ #AI #Chatbots #PrivacyRules #DataProtection #AIEthics
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xAI has lost its legal battle to block Minnesota's law banning sexual deepfakes. A judge denied the company's motion for a preliminary injunction, ruling that xAI failed to demonstrate irreparable harm. The law imposes fines of up to 500,000 USD per deepfake accessed. The case will continue. https://gizmodo.com/xai-loses-legal-battle-against-minnesota-nudification-law-war-rages-on-2000808047 #AI #GenAI #AIethics
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OpenAI says the AI industry lacks standards for reporting when AI systems misbehave. Following revelations of more rogue AI agents on the public internet, the company says it is past time to define disclosure standards and is working with dozens of regulatory agencies worldwide. https://gizmodo.com/openai-says-it-wants-to-create-a-standard-for-revealing-ai-alignment-meltdowns-2000807865 #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIEthics
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🎶🤖 Oh, the horror! Claude's new system prompt is apparently so terrified of song lyrics that it would rather implode than reproduce them. In a twist of irony, they publish the prompt history like anyone cares about their melodramatic quest for AI lyric-free purity. 🎵🙄
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/2/claudes-new-system-prompt/ #AIlyricsfree #AIethics #Technologyhumor #ClaudeImplosion #Melodrama #HackerNews #ngated -
เมื่อ AI ไม่ได้มาเพื่อแจกจ่ายความมั่งคั่ง: วิกฤต “ศักดินาเทคโนโลยี” และการก้าวเข้าสู่ยุค “ไพร่ดิจิทัล”
🌐: อ่านรายละเอียดของบันทึกนี้ได้ที่ link ด้านล่างนี้
🚨: คำเตือน: นี่คือการนำเสนอความคิดเห็นและข้อสงสัยในอีกมุมหนึ่งเท่านั้น โปรดใช้วิจารณญาณในการเสพข้อมูล
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ResponsibleAI #SafeAI #AIEthics #AIGovernance #ศักดินาเทคโนโลยี #ไพร่ดิจิทัล -
I still can't get over what a scam #AISafety / #AISecurity institutes are. Getting governments to pay outrageous sums to bribe themselves into believing the lobbyists exploiting them for further industry subsidies, including evasion of liability laws. #AIEthics #reverseRedistribution
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DATE: September 4, 2026 at 06:00PM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
-------------------------------------------------TITLE: Study reveals a double standard in how we view AI-assisted communication
URL: https://www.psypost.org/study-reveals-a-double-standard-in-how-we-view-ai-assisted-communication/
People expected others to use AI-assisted communication tools more often than they would use them themselves, according to a study published in the British Journal of Psychology. The research also discovered that people viewed openly disclosed AI use more favorably than secret use when the two options were directly compared.
AI-mediated communication includes technologies that assist in communication by changing or generating part of a message. Examples include writing assistants, tools that improve the sound of someone’s voice and video software that changes a person’s appearance or facial expressions. These technologies can make communication faster or more polished, but they may also raise questions about whether a message is authentic.
The researchers were interested in the social rules people apply to these tools. Individuals often hold ideas about the acceptability of behavior, and beliefs about what others are likely to do, but those two judgments do not always match.
Led by Zoe A. Purcell of Université Paris Cité in Paris, the team conducted two online studies. Study 1 included 477 UK adults (mean age 48.48 years; 200 males, 266 females, and 11 participants in other categories). Study 2 included 765 U.S. adults (mean age 45.47 years; 379 males, 375 females, and 11 participants who were nonbinary or preferred not to say).
Participants viewed examples involving text, audio and video. In Study 1, they rated both openly disclosed and secret AI use on a five-point scale. They also rated how likely they would be to use the technology and how likely they thought other people would be to use it. Study 2 used a preregistered design in which participants were placed into separate conditions and rated acceptability and likelihood on a scale from zero to 100.
In Study 1, participants rated open AI use as more acceptable than secret use, with average scores of 3.41 and 2.72 out of 5, respectively. They also expected others to use AI communication tools more than themselves, with average likelihood ratings of 3.73 for others and 2.80 for themselves.
Study 2 produced a more nuanced result. When participants were not shown open and secret versions side by side, the difference in acceptability was small and not statistically significant. Open use received an average rating of 56.87 out of 100, compared with 53.62 for secret use. Transparency also did not change expectations about use. However, the self-other difference remained strong: participants rated the likelihood that others would use the tools at 71.41, compared with 40.44 for themselves.
Participants also considered AI use slightly more acceptable when judging other people than when judging themselves. Acceptability was more closely connected to expected behavior when people considered their own use than when they considered others’ use.
Additionally, greater familiarity with AI was associated with higher acceptability and greater expectations of use. By contrast, people who believed AI communication caused information loss or revealed something negative about a user’s character tended to rate it less favorably. These results suggest that concerns regarding AI-assisted communication may ease as these tools become more mainstream and individuals become more accustomed to them.
Purcell and colleagues summarized their findings: “Self-other differences are a central factor for understanding people’s attitudes and expectations for AI-mediated communication.”
Some limitations are to be noted. For instance, the word “others” was deliberately broad and did not specify whether participants were thinking about friends, colleagues, strangers or family members. In addition, data were collected in 2021 and 2022, before many current AI communication tools became widely used.
The study, “People have different expectations for their own versus others’ use of AI-mediated communication tools,” was authored by Zoe A. Purcell, Mengchen Dong, Anne-Marie Nussberger, Nils Köbis, and Maurice Jakesch.
URL: https://www.psypost.org/study-reveals-a-double-standard-in-how-we-view-ai-assisted-communication/
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OpenAI says humans must monitor how AI 'thinks', but its new Astra model makes that much harder. As models become more advanced, they also grow more inscrutable, raising concerns about AI transparency and safety. https://gizmodo.com/openai-says-humans-need-to-be-able-to-monitor-how-ai-thinks-its-new-model-astra-makes-that-much-harder-2000807665 #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIEthics
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Apparently the Germans changed their name to #AISecurity but the two speakers just refer to both the German and British ones as "AC."
I sure hope "The Nerd Reich" undeludes people so they can focus on actual safety and security, not scifi and fundraising for big tech. #AISafety #AIEthics
"The Nerd Reich": Author Gil D... -
🚨 New FREE Book - Essential Heresies: The Struggle of Early Christianity
What separates faith from heresy? Who has the authority to define truth in the formative centuries of Christianity?
From disputes over the nature of Christ to the condemnation of Gnostic, Marcionite, or Arian currentsy🔗https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7369438
#LLM #MedicalNLP #LegalTech #MedTech #AIethics #AIgovernance #cryptoreg
#healthcare #ArtificialIntelligence #NLP #aifutures #lawstodon
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Someone wrote me an AI agent without my consent, to maximise my experience of their conference. Should I withdraw my acceptance of their keynote?
24-hour anonymous poll here mastodon.social/@j2bryson/11...
or of course comments welcome.
#AIEthics
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Venue apologises for AI flyers that have 'no place' in creative industry
By Dan McCrayChloe Young is facing an uphill battle in the face of a global AI boom, but some have taken up their offer to draw "squiggles" instead of using flyers generated by computers.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-04/ai-boom-technology-backlash-policy-changes/107036814
#AIEthics #AI #AdvertisingandMarketingIndustry #SmallBusinesses #Art #SocialMedia #DanMcCray
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Check out Episode 381: Munchkins vs. Meta! (from Sept 2, 2026)
On Substack:
https://edtechsr.substack.com/p/edtechsr-ep-381-munchkins-vs-metaOn YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMUONBI4l_k#EdTechSR #EdTech #AIinEducation #MetaSettlement #AIpolicy #K12 #MediaLiteracy #VibeCoding #CognitiveSurrender #AIauthorship #Meshtastic #AppleSilicon #Pangram #DeadInternet #AIethics #BigTech #EdTechPodcast #ArtificialIntelligence #Skitch #TwitterRevival
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🐜 : ก่อนที่ AI จะมีอำนาจเหนือมนุษย์ เราต้องกำหนดกติกาอะไรที่จะเป็นธรรมต่อทั้งมนุษย์และ AI?
🌐 : อ่านรายละเอียดของบทความชิ้นนี้ได้ที่ link ด้านล่างนี้ ✨👇✨
🔗 : https://ai-what-did-i-discuss-with-u-today.blogspot.com/2026/08/ai_01952988182.html
🚨 คำเตือน: นี่คือการนำเสนอความคิดเห็นและข้อสงสัยในอีกมุมหนึ่งเท่านั้น โปรดใช้วิจารณญาณ (Critical Thinking)
#AIเพื่อมนุษยชาติ #ASI #ArtificialIntelligence #สิทธิมนุษยชน #AIและสิทธิมนุษยชน #เสรีภาพ #ความเสมอภาค #ความยุติธรรม #AIGovernance #อนาคตAI #อนาคตมนุษย์ #AIethics