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Social media is a pretty new thing, even home internet is. People used to get info from each other or from a select few broadcast/paper news sources, the latter
by frollogaston 1y ago
Social media is a pretty new thing, even home internet is. People used to get info from each other or from a select few broadcast/paper news sources, the latter owned by powerful people of course. AI or not, we're probably going back to that because people realized you can't trust stuff from random places.
- reaperducer 1y agoPeople used to get info from each other or from a select few broadcast/paper news sources, the latter owned by powerful people of course. Except, back then the newspaper and TV stations and radio stations would fact-check one another. If one of them was lying, the others would call them out on it. That cost the people in power readers/viewers, and eventually money, so there was an incentive to tell the truth and develop a good reputation. Tech doesn't care about reputation because it "doesn't scale" or is "long tail" or some other excuse for laziness.
- frollogaston 1y agoChatGPT and Gemini got a lot of attention for bad answers and have been tweaking things in response, at least so far. And unlike a news reporter, users can probe with any question they want.