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Perhaps the problem is broader and more fundamental, in that too many people have been conditioned to uncritically believe whatever they read in books, newspape

Perhaps the problem is broader and more fundamental, in that too many people have been conditioned to uncritically believe whatever they read in books, newspapers, and internet articles from 'reputable sources', and so they have a tendency to ignore the OpenAI warning that outputs may be inaccurate, untruthful, and otherwise misleading at times.? Imagine if every cable news show and newspaper story led with "the information presented here may be biased, inaccurate and/or incomplete, because we need to align with the interests of our advertisers, owners and government regulators". The solution would be teaching broadly applicable critical analysis skills at a fairly young age, but this would tend to undermine 'faith in institutions and leaders', which is doubleplus ungood.

vuln 3y ago
> Imagine if every cable news show and newspaper story led with "the information presented here may be biased, inaccurate and/or incomplete, because we need to align with the interests of our advertisers, owners and government regulators". Don’t threaten me with a good time. Just the thought of this makes my pants tight.
skybrian 3y ago
No, this is just bad UI. Most software is better at reporting errors or warnings when it can’t do something. You should be able to figure out what the software can do by trying it out.
lyu07282 3y ago
This is very true, kind of reminds me of how in school they teach you how you to properly cite your sources and how fundamental citations are to our entire scientific advancements, but then you read or watch the news and realize no journalist ever cites their sources. We were always just supposed to believe what the evening news or the new york times are saying, so the only answer the establishment has to fake news in social media is to say don't trust those specific social media accounts but our accounts you can trust. Instead of a more helpful education on media literacy in general.
- Ekaros 3y ago
  And then next step is to understand that any falsehood can be propagated on sites like Wikipedia by carefully curating the sources.
- pixl97 3y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnesiaEffect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes... >Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. >In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know. >That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all. But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly isn't. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.

vuln 3y ago

> Imagine if every cable news show and newspaper story led with "the information presented here may be biased, inaccurate and/or incomplete, because we need to align with the interests of our advertisers, owners and government regulators". Don’t threaten me with a good time. Just the thought of this makes my pants tight.

skybrian 3y ago

No, this is just bad UI. Most software is better at reporting errors or warnings when it can’t do something. You should be able to figure out what the software can do by trying it out.

lyu07282 3y ago

This is very true, kind of reminds me of how in school they teach you how you to properly cite your sources and how fundamental citations are to our entire scientific advancements, but then you read or watch the news and realize no journalist ever cites their sources. We were always just supposed to believe what the evening news or the new york times are saying, so the only answer the establishment has to fake news in social media is to say don't trust those specific social media accounts but our accounts you can trust. Instead of a more helpful education on media literacy in general.

Ekaros 3y ago
And then next step is to understand that any falsehood can be propagated on sites like Wikipedia by carefully curating the sources.
pixl97 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnesiaEffect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes... >Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. >In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know. >That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all. But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly isn't. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.