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That won't happen, we'll have fact-checking AI chatbots. And if we don't, it's on the user to do their own research and withstand every psychological trick thr

That won't happen, we'll have fact-checking AI chatbots. And if we don't, it's on the user to do their own research and withstand every psychological trick thrown at them, or they deserve to be fooled. The Internet was full of fake news anyway, now there's just more of it. The confetti has left the cannon, this was inevitable, just get used to the new normal you luddites. Oh well. Did I miss any?

ghaff 4y ago
Although the most egregious examples are probably fake information, there will be no shortage of simply low signal to noise information that will use sheer quantity to drive out stuff more carefully crafted by people who aren't going for volume.
kneebonian 4y ago
The problem will be the ability to fabricate digital evidence at scale. What does it mean to research if I can fabricate an entire university complete with domains, professor bios and students all that never existed. Then once I have that I can create a Wikipedia entry, and at that point it's basically fact already because of citogenesis. At this point all digital evidence should be suspect and.we should trust nothing online we don't experience for ourselves in meat space.
- kolinko 4y ago
  Unless you can steal an actual university's website, fabricating university website won't give you much - a good agent can have a list of sources of truth and proceed from there. Sure, some sources of truth can be compromised, but it will be diffult to breach them all.
- jruohonen 4y ago
  Faking universities is not a new thing. These have long been known to push fraud involved with paper and certificate mills. Furthermore, even some state authorities have faked universities: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/12/10/who-went-fake-university-farmington-and-why https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/12/10/who-went-fake...

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That won't happen, we'll have fact-checking AI chatbots. And if we don't, it's on the user to do their own research and withstand every psychological trick thr

by CatWChainsaw 4y ago

ghaff 4y ago
Although the most egregious examples are probably fake information, there will be no shortage of simply low signal to noise information that will use sheer quantity to drive out stuff more carefully crafted by people who aren't going for volume.
kneebonian 4y ago
The problem will be the ability to fabricate digital evidence at scale. What does it mean to research if I can fabricate an entire university complete with domains, professor bios and students all that never existed. Then once I have that I can create a Wikipedia entry, and at that point it's basically fact already because of citogenesis. At this point all digital evidence should be suspect and.we should trust nothing online we don't experience for ourselves in meat space.
- kolinko 4y ago
  Unless you can steal an actual university's website, fabricating university website won't give you much - a good agent can have a list of sources of truth and proceed from there. Sure, some sources of truth can be compromised, but it will be diffult to breach them all.
- jruohonen 4y ago
  Faking universities is not a new thing. These have long been known to push fraud involved with paper and certificate mills. Furthermore, even some state authorities have faked universities: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/12/10/who-went-fake-university-farmington-and-why https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/12/10/who-went-fake...