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Who was really reading/believing articles written by random people anyway? I would not take any random blog as true or useful unless I was familiar with the aut

Who was really reading/believing articles written by random people anyway? I would not take any random blog as true or useful unless I was familiar with the author and their work. How is the "AI injected" world any different? There will be more disinformation to fool those of us who believe something they read based on anything but the source. So what? Thats already a huge industry. Fooling the easily fooled accounts for most social media and ad traffic already. So now they get more fooled or fooled more often? I think thats not good but also not catastrophic in the way that is being implied.

fnimick 3y ago
> Who was really reading/believing articles written by random people anyway? I would not take any random blog as true or useful unless I was familiar with the author and their work. That works for you, but for everyone else who is less diligent in source evaluation, this now gets worse. Don't you agree that society suffers when a large proportion of people now get their information from fake sources?
- MeImCounting 3y ago
  The argument I am making is that this is already happening. It wont be great that the BS is more convincing and more pervasive. It also wont be the end of society and truth, leading us all to a deadly spiral of misinformation. People should strive to be more critical, if that includes evaluating the source of whatever they listen to then I think thats great. This is something we should be doing anyway.
  - fnimick 3y ago
    I think I disagree with your underlying assumption that as long as you, personally, are critically evaluating sources and are 'safe', it doesn't matter whether other people end up in the misinformation spiral. I can be as critical as I want, if the people around me who vote, have influence on my environment, etc end up in misinformation, it has a huge impact on my life.
    - MeImCounting 3y ago
      Yeah but those people are already taking whatever they read on the internet at face value. They already believe whatever conspiracy theory they read on tik tok or facebook. They already believe whatever fox news tells them too. Advocating for critical and thoughtful consumption of media will become more important with the rise of AI and it will also lift up society as a whole. If society really takes this seriously we could make real progress and help many people who are currently vulnerable to misinformation become less so.

fnimick 3y ago

> Who was really reading/believing articles written by random people anyway? I would not take any random blog as true or useful unless I was familiar with the author and their work. That works for you, but for everyone else who is less diligent in source evaluation, this now gets worse. Don't you agree that society suffers when a large proportion of people now get their information from fake sources?

MeImCounting 3y ago
The argument I am making is that this is already happening. It wont be great that the BS is more convincing and more pervasive. It also wont be the end of society and truth, leading us all to a deadly spiral of misinformation. People should strive to be more critical, if that includes evaluating the source of whatever they listen to then I think thats great. This is something we should be doing anyway.
- fnimick 3y ago
  I think I disagree with your underlying assumption that as long as you, personally, are critically evaluating sources and are 'safe', it doesn't matter whether other people end up in the misinformation spiral. I can be as critical as I want, if the people around me who vote, have influence on my environment, etc end up in misinformation, it has a huge impact on my life.
  - MeImCounting 3y ago
    Yeah but those people are already taking whatever they read on the internet at face value. They already believe whatever conspiracy theory they read on tik tok or facebook. They already believe whatever fox news tells them too. Advocating for critical and thoughtful consumption of media will become more important with the rise of AI and it will also lift up society as a whole. If society really takes this seriously we could make real progress and help many people who are currently vulnerable to misinformation become less so.