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>> Do people want to live in a world where they can't trust anything they didn't personally see with their own eyes? Maybe it will all turn out for the better,
by MichaelRo 1y ago
>> Do people want to live in a world where they can't trust anything they didn't personally see with their own eyes?
Maybe it will all turn out for the better, in an unexpected way. Before the advent of the Internet and then the flood of cheap "content", there were newspapers and TV news. These had real professionals behind them and some level of integrity and proofcheck of the facts, so at least for reputable names, you could reasonably trust what you saw presented by them.
When the garbage content will completely take over the real landscape, like litter in India let's say, we'll be left with no choice but to turn back to the old news channels: real journalism. And I think it's almost inevitable as there's no stopping to the littering people. Funnily, much of this content originates in the litter-filled Asian countries, where the promise of a few bucks made on the "content platforms" attracts huge crowds with no scruples whatsoever and if AI attracts views and likes, let's drown them in AI.
I personally have a visceral feeling of hate when I'm tricked by some video being AI and by reading comments, I'm far from alone.
- soraminazuki 1y ago> we'll be left with no choice but to turn back to the old news channels: real journalism This sounds naively optimistic IMO. It's not as if people were immune to false information before social media and LLMs took off. Technological advancements and free access to information promised us a better future of a well-informed society. Instead, it's increasingly turbo-charging the worst instincts of humanity, putting our very freedoms at risk. Grim as it sounds, I'm not seeing a way out of this.
- lazide 1y agoThis is why Fox news has such a hold on viewers - it tells them what an angry part of them hopes to hear, true or not.
- darthnebula 1y agoIt isn't just Fox News. CNN and all the others are equally as bad.
- lazide 1y agoThere recently has been a race to the bottom, but Fox has been false-outrage-baiting for decades before any of the other outlets did so. Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones, et al. too. And really nasty too, at least until Fox and Alex Jones lost their respective lawsuits. No one is innocent here, but they aren’t equal (as in the same).