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What guarantee is there that the published news isn't fake? This might start something like viral fake facebook posts. We already have enough of those. Now we h

What guarantee is there that the published news isn't fake? This might start something like viral fake facebook posts. We already have enough of those. Now we have automated fake news generator where you post your own fake news for free. This is what it will become one day. Hope they have something to stop it.

minikites 9y ago
Why would this even be on Google's radar? They make money either way.
untog 9y ago
I don't really see what this has to do with fake news. Traditionally produced news stories can be fake, and algorithmically generated stories can be fake (when fed bad data). The only solution to take news is news organisations that people can trust. Historically, local news organisations have always been the most trusted, but their income has been absolutely decimated in the last decade or so. This feels like a desperate cost cutting measure, not something that will help the overall problem.
- kronos29296 9y ago
  This decreases the barrier to entry. Sometimes that's all it takes to encourage the wrong things. The overall system is failing because it cannot adapt to the new internet age. Hopefully something changes and we get reliable news.
  - illumin8 9y ago
    Ability to automate creation of news = ability to automate creation of propaganda = ability to automate censorship of news.
tokyoSurfer 9y ago
I am more afraid of options that this tool would have. Like fine tune it to be 5% friendlier on candidate 1 than 2. Report news on XXX 10% less than on news YYY. Make people happy. Make people sad. Make people compelling. All this by adjusting few options and changing the wording of articles.
- heartbreak 9y ago
  But media companies could already do this with human writers if they wanted to. Maybe they do?
  - tokyoSurfer 9y ago
    It is much easier to fine tune few variables than fine tune human writing. Thus human writing will be easy to determine which side it is siding to.

minikites 9y ago

Why would this even be on Google's radar? They make money either way.

untog 9y ago

I don't really see what this has to do with fake news. Traditionally produced news stories can be fake, and algorithmically generated stories can be fake (when fed bad data). The only solution to take news is news organisations that people can trust. Historically, local news organisations have always been the most trusted, but their income has been absolutely decimated in the last decade or so. This feels like a desperate cost cutting measure, not something that will help the overall problem.

kronos29296 9y ago
This decreases the barrier to entry. Sometimes that's all it takes to encourage the wrong things. The overall system is failing because it cannot adapt to the new internet age. Hopefully something changes and we get reliable news.
- illumin8 9y ago
  Ability to automate creation of news = ability to automate creation of propaganda = ability to automate censorship of news.

tokyoSurfer 9y ago

I am more afraid of options that this tool would have. Like fine tune it to be 5% friendlier on candidate 1 than 2. Report news on XXX 10% less than on news YYY. Make people happy. Make people sad. Make people compelling. All this by adjusting few options and changing the wording of articles.

heartbreak 9y ago
But media companies could already do this with human writers if they wanted to. Maybe they do?
- tokyoSurfer 9y ago
  It is much easier to fine tune few variables than fine tune human writing. Thus human writing will be easy to determine which side it is siding to.