The World Economic Forum says false and misleading information supercharged with cutting-edge artificial intelligence is the top immediate risk to the global economy.
Sometimes I wonder if the clown music is just in my head or if it’s the theme music for the past few years.
The biggest misinformation comes from Fox or related ventures in other countries. No AI or deepfakes needed, just classical oligarchic propaganda. But yeah let’s listen to the guys willing to let the world burn for slightly higher profit margins what the big problems in the world are today.
The issue is that I know that Fox has a bias, however AI pulls on this misinformation and remixes it which makes it harder to know if it is true or not. Add to the amount of AI generated garbage on the internet good information is getting harder for your average person to find. So you may have correctly identified a major source of the misinformation, AI masking the source disseminates it far and wide.
Let’s say the New York Times publishes multiple articles and opinion pieces stating that a certain country in the middle east has weapons of mass destruction, and following this in a period 20 years a million people die a violent death in said country. Would you blame this on the printing press, on the people delivering the newspapers, on the word processing software used to write these articles, or on the people willingly pushing lies. The same goes for climate change misinformation or smoking health effects misinformation (and many more examples).
Capital has interests and is willing to go quite far pushing them, the tools they use change but the methods and the culprits stay the same.
Sometimes I wonder if the clown music is just in my head or if it’s the theme music for the past few years.
The biggest misinformation comes from Fox or related ventures in other countries. No AI or deepfakes needed, just classical oligarchic propaganda. But yeah let’s listen to the guys willing to let the world burn for slightly higher profit margins what the big problems in the world are today.
The issue is that I know that Fox has a bias, however AI pulls on this misinformation and remixes it which makes it harder to know if it is true or not. Add to the amount of AI generated garbage on the internet good information is getting harder for your average person to find. So you may have correctly identified a major source of the misinformation, AI masking the source disseminates it far and wide.
Let’s say the New York Times publishes multiple articles and opinion pieces stating that a certain country in the middle east has weapons of mass destruction, and following this in a period 20 years a million people die a violent death in said country. Would you blame this on the printing press, on the people delivering the newspapers, on the word processing software used to write these articles, or on the people willingly pushing lies. The same goes for climate change misinformation or smoking health effects misinformation (and many more examples).
Capital has interests and is willing to go quite far pushing them, the tools they use change but the methods and the culprits stay the same.