AI is destabilizing 'the concept of truth itself' in 2024 election
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AI is destabilizing 'the concept of truth itself' in 2024 election
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#4It might be more accurate to say some people are using AI to try and destabilize the concept of truth.
AI sitting on it's own on a computer won't do this. Someone has to compel it.
My question is if it can be used to destabilize truth, how can AI help make inherent truth (true from all/most angles and interpretations) stand out more?
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#5My favorites (will be topped in a month tops):
- President Biden teaches you how to get a goth girlfriend
- The three last players^W presidents have a Metal Gear Solid let’s play (Trump is surprisingly level-headed so far)
Re: AI is destabilizing 'the concept of truth itself' in 2024 election
#6It might be more accurate to say some people are using AI to try and destabilize the concept of truth. AI sitting on it's own on a computer won't do this. Someone has to compel it. My question is if it can be used to destabilize truth, how can AI help make inherent truth (true from all/most angles and interpretations) stand out more?
That’s probably something that Postmodern philosophers have tried to answer but for more boring Information Overload Eras (telegraph; newspapers; mass media; the Web).
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#7It might be more accurate to say some people are using AI to try and destabilize the concept of truth. AI sitting on it's own on a computer won't do this. Someone has to compel it. My question is if it can be used to destabilize truth, how can AI help make inherent truth (true from all/most angles and interpretations) stand out more?
It's not necessarily the case that because AI can destabilize truth, that it can also re-stabilize truth. It's much easier to burn something down (e.g. trust) than build it up. c.f. second law of thermodynamics, etc.
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#8It might be more accurate to say some people are using AI to try and destabilize the concept of truth. AI sitting on it's own on a computer won't do this. Someone has to compel it. My question is if it can be used to destabilize truth, how can AI help make inherent truth (true from all/most angles and interpretations) stand out more?
It's not necessarily the case that because AI can destabilize truth, that it can also re-stabilize truth. It's much easier to burn something down (e.g. trust) than build it up. c.f. second law of thermodynamics, etc.
See also Gish gallop
Re: AI is destabilizing 'the concept of truth itself' in 2024 election
#9It might be more accurate to say some people are using AI to try and destabilize the concept of truth. AI sitting on it's own on a computer won't do this. Someone has to compel it. My question is if it can be used to destabilize truth, how can AI help make inherent truth (true from all/most angles and interpretations) stand out more?
> My question is if it can be used to destabilize truth, how can AI help make inherent truth (true from all/most angles and interpretations) stand out more?
I'd say that it can't, because it's not an AI problem, but rather a media problem.
In general, people are more interested in sensational reporting ("You won't believe what X did") than well thought out, factual reporting.
The solution is a slower news cycle with enough time to do fact checking and analysis of how the events fit in the bigger picture, but that's incompatible with up to the minute news. AI doesn't help with this.
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#10My feeling is that the media including newspapers are the ones destabilizing the concept of truth itself in their reporting.
The media have been going out of their way to elevate themselves as the arbiters and gatekeepers of “truth” all the while using their coverages and how they frame the coverages to push people towards their view of the world.