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> This is stereotypical Gell-Mann amnesia - you have to validate information, for yourself, within your own model of the world. You need the tools to be able to
by tmpz22 3y ago
> This is stereotypical Gell-Mann amnesia - you have to validate information, for yourself, within your own model of the world. You need the tools to be able to verify information that's important to you, whether it's research or knowing which experts or sources are likely to be trustworthy.
Except anthropologically speaking we still live in trust-based society. We trust water to be available. We trust the grocery stores to be stocked. We trust that our Government institutions are always going to be there.
All this to say we have a moral obligation not to let AI spam off the hook as "trust but verify". It is fucked up that people make money abusing innate trust-based mechanism that society depends on to be society.
- satellite2 3y agoAnd most importantly we trust money to not only be paper or bits
- observationist 3y agoOh, for sure - I'm not saying don't do anything about it. I'm just saying you should have been treating all information online like this anyway. The lesson from Gell-Mann is that you should bring the same level of skepticism to bear on any source of information that you would on an article where you have expertise and can identify bad information, sloppy thinking, or other significant problems you're particularly qualified to spot. The mistake was ever not using "Trust but verify" as the default mode. AI is just scaling the problem up, but then again, millions of bots online and troll farms aren't exactly new, either. So yes, don't let AI off the hook, but also, if AI is used to good purposes, with repeatable positive results, then don't dismiss something merely because AI is being used. AI being involved in the pipeline isn't a good proxy for quality or authenticity, and AI is only going to get better than it is now.