URL: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/racist-sora-snap-welfare
This slop apparatus does more than just generate clicks; its despicable effect is to manufacture consent for undermining SNAP, a program that feeds roughly 42 million poor and working people across the United States. According to the non-partisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, over two thirds of SNAP recipients are either children, elderly, or disabled. Of those able-bodied workers with at least one child who receive SNAP, a whopping 89 percent of them have jobs.
Put another way, AI has become a powerful tool in perpetuating the myth of the welfare queen — a harmful and unfair stereotype dating back to the days of Ronald Reagan. In the wake of the largest transfer of wealth from poor to rich in the country’s history, this kind of misinformation helps blame the victims for the poverty it helped create.