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I don't share your concerns. If the difference between a good and a bad news article is whether a real person has written it, how can AI generated news prevail?
by jupp0r 4y ago
I don't share your concerns. If the difference between a good and a bad news article is whether a real person has written it, how can AI generated news prevail? If nobody can tell the difference, does it really matter who wrote the article?
Facts can be verified the same way they are right now. By reputation and reporting by trusted sources with eyes on the ground and verifiable evidence.
Regarding comments on news sites being spammed by AI: there are great ways to prove you are human already. You can do this using physical objects (think Yubikeys). I don't see any problems that would fundamentally break Captchas in the near future, although they will need to evolve like they always have.
- jazzyjackson 4y ago"quantity has a quality all of its own"
- flir 4y agoSo back to trusted news sources? Newspapers of record that can only operate at a human scale? That doesn't sound so bad. I mean, this many-to-many communication turned out to have a lot of problems associated with it.
- lastangryman 4y agoWhen the AI figures out what articles it should write to maximise whatever metric it is aiming for, that is worse than we have now. When it can also generate "real" images and video to go along with the article, and perhaps artificially construct online personas that starts to blur what we can trust as a source. How can verify something is real, unless you go there and see it with your own eyes? All the disinformation we have today is bad enough, this is going to accelerate it in to something unrecognisable.
- jupp0r 4y agoHow do you verify information right now? If I read it in a "trustworthy" news source (for me this is newspapers like New York Times, Washington Post, etc), I know that these institutions have a reputation to loose which incentivizes them to produce quality journalism. If the New York Times started to spread AI generated false information or other content that I would deem low quality, I would switch to other news sources without those flaws. If there is no news source left that produces quality journalism and has a reputation for it AND there is nobody who cares about such journalism being produced then we have bigger problems. Otherwise, as long as there's demand, somebody will produce quality journalism, build a reputation for it and have incentives to keep not spreading false information.
- javier2 4y agoIt is way worse, because writing nonsense or ads that fit your context will be way faster and dirt cheap.