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The vast majority of generators of fake news today are from Content Mills, Copy Paste Mills and general SEO spammers. Political misinformation is the other big
by Vetch 4y ago
The vast majority of generators of fake news today are from Content Mills, Copy Paste Mills and general SEO spammers. Political misinformation is the other big generator. The economics of it and not "ethical" gate keeping is what will affect their output. Realistically, normal people don't have the ability to coordinate hordes of proxied IPs to attack social networks requiring account sign ups and custom feeds.
The value of exercising critical thinking, checking trusted curated sources, information hygiene, recognizing and avoiding manipulation tactics in news and ads will have to go up. The internet is already almost entirely unreliable without requiring any fancy AI. The listed skills will be necessary regardless any increase of politically manipulative content, advertisements or product misrepresentations.
- tonypace 4y agoRich people often try to purchase political influence and respect for their opinions. Historically, this has had very mixed results, but you can't deny that it has sometimes worked. The problem is that this does not have a market mechanism. If the rich person has funds from another source, economics can go out the window, and usually does.