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When 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 "r
by lastangryman 4y ago
When 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.