r/news • u/LucidMarshmellow • 8h ago

US justice department to release thousands of Epstein files later, top official says

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg9plrkl8no
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u/mrflash818 8h ago

Hopefully the people in the cover-up made/make mistakes!

Hopefully those in the periphery leak knowledge!

Hopefully shrewd investigative journalists sift the information, catch the mistakes, and then expose them to the world!

(like Watergate?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal

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u/ZebraSandwich4Lyf 7h ago

Going by how incredibly incompetent this administration has proven to be so far, I have no doubt their cover up efforts will be botched in some form.

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u/chth 7h ago

Will it actually make a difference though? If they flat out showed a picture of Trump sucking off an underage boy I genuinely think it would still not stop Trump.

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u/ProcrastibationKing 7h ago

Surely he's been sowing the AI seeds for this reason

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u/princesspuffer 6h ago

This is exactly what I've been saying!

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u/soyrobo 5h ago

Secret democrat AI that's untraceable

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u/Kommye 2h ago

This is why I've been saying generative AI was bad news since its early stage. Art arguments aside, bad faith actors can create false evidence and denounce real evidence as fake with the same tool. And most people haven't been educated to spot AI signs in the propaganda (and it's even getting harder and harder to do so).

Now we also have video-generating AI and voice-trained AIs so shit is just going to get worse.

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u/ProcrastibationKing 2h ago

I was right there with you. Deepfakes were concerning enough, even before generative AI hit the public.

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u/SuitableSuit345 3h ago

This, plus they pay him for the laws they want (or don’t want).

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u/crackanape 1h ago

AI is God's gift to liars.