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> My question is if it can be used to destabilize truth, how can AI help make inherent truth (true from all/most angles and interpretations) stand out more? I'
by jfim 3y ago
> My question is if it can be used to destabilize truth, how can AI help make inherent truth (true from all/most angles and interpretations) stand out more?
I'd say that it can't, because it's not an AI problem, but rather a media problem.
In general, people are more interested in sensational reporting ("You won't believe what X did") than well thought out, factual reporting.
The solution is a slower news cycle with enough time to do fact checking and analysis of how the events fit in the bigger picture, but that's incompatible with up to the minute news. AI doesn't help with this.
- j45 3y agoOk, then to the extent it's a media problem, which is to me a proxy for a problem of interpretation and disseminating interpretation as facts. Click Bait will be effective as long as the human brain is wired to process the environment for threat. "You won't believe what X tried to report on Y was doing". A slower news cycle could be useful, but it makes me wonder if that's not how it was already.. in the past, and also centralized the news. Learning from news itself may be part of the issue. I remain surprised by what a large percent of the population doesn't know the difference between journalism and opinion/editoral writing. Maybe something like www.mediabiaschart.com can help.