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References are used to trace back to source material. Once you've verified that the source material is truthful, you have started building trust in the author.
by colordrops 4y ago
References are used to trace back to source material. Once you've verified that the source material is truthful, you have started building trust in the author. Over time you can trust this author without verifying every single datum they publish. This is how trust works. We do it all the time to more or less of a degree. No PhD required. What's the issue here?
- thriftwy 4y agoMachine may easily add references to truthful sources from what is bogus content.
- colordrops 4y agoIf it's machine generated or not doesn't matter. It's whether the content derives properly from truthful sources. If it's machine generated but true, so what?
- HWR_14 4y agoThat doesn't sound like a solution for machine-generated content. That's a solution for misinformation. Different problem. Although machine generated content will make the misinformation problem much worse.
- colordrops 4y agoTrue, but if you can still discerb truth from misinformation, perhaps it won't be so sad