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Honestly, I think the only hope for the future is open source AI that can read and digest the vast landscape of "truth" on the internet, and help the average ci
by iamcasen 9y ago
Honestly, I think the only hope for the future is open source AI that can read and digest the vast landscape of "truth" on the internet, and help the average citizen be more informed by corroborating facts.
It's very true: no one has the time or attention span to deeply analyze everything we see/read/hear. We used to trust what was given to us, but now that's impossible.
- DanAndersen 9y agoIt's hard to see how placing trust in a giant AI would solve the issue. Just offering "fact-checks" that don't deal in context leaves so much open to interpretation. The major leftist/rightist media networks do what they do not as much through blatant lying (though that happens) as with technically-defensible interpretations of factual events, selective coverage/reporting, and twists of terminology (democracy vs populism, government vs regime, article vs screed, etc). When people call upon services like fact-checkers or find individual studies to wield in argument, the goal ends up being to find mental stopsigns to be able to dismiss the opponent's argument and totem-like symbols of legitimacy to prop your own arguments up. I don't know what the way out is, but I can't imagine externalizing our thinking/reasoning even more would be the way.
- iamcasen 9y agoNote that I said "open source AI" with the implication that how it works is transparent, and how it is trained is transparent and verifiable. There is simply no skirting around the fact that our brains are not equipped to deal with the astounding volumes of information being jammed through our every sense every minute of the day.