"We need fact-checkers who can work faster than AI misinformation spreads." - feels like this is impossible. It's always going to be retrospective, and as Yuval Noah Harari points out, truth is much more expensive, much harder work, and much more boring (and therefore less viral) than fiction. Tbh, all the solutions to the problem currently seem impossible - which is to say, I'm not optimistic there are solutions beyond total dissolution of trust online. Maybe with the exception of school education programmes which teach kids not to believe anything until it's confirmed by reputable sources. But that too is problematic. While we wait for the inevitable, we just do our best!
Another great post Henk.
"We need fact-checkers who can work faster than AI misinformation spreads." - feels like this is impossible. It's always going to be retrospective, and as Yuval Noah Harari points out, truth is much more expensive, much harder work, and much more boring (and therefore less viral) than fiction. Tbh, all the solutions to the problem currently seem impossible - which is to say, I'm not optimistic there are solutions beyond total dissolution of trust online. Maybe with the exception of school education programmes which teach kids not to believe anything until it's confirmed by reputable sources. But that too is problematic. While we wait for the inevitable, we just do our best!
Superb post. This is alarming.
Perhaps AI could be required to have “AI produced” waterstained across all images or otherwise automated to be labeled “ created by AI”
I think the label will be “created by humans”
I'm surprised this didn't go viral on X!?