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Didn't we hear about the "post-truth world" maybe six or so years ago?
https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10415a.htm
Pontius Pilate asked the rhetorical question, "What Is Truth?" as Truth Himself stood before him on trial.
As Individuals of a content derived species we can now backup our bubbles on the internet with ease.
Can that be conveniencemated?
Where is the uMatrix Original SaaS that takes my chromegmailfacebookX data and publishes the truth I want to live in to my localhost?
The concept of truth has always been fuzzy when it comes to politics. When was there are stable time for the concept of truth in politics? The entire political system of ads, media, speeches, etc are full of misrepresentations, outright lies or lies by omission. I guess washingtonpost is upset because historically it was the job of washingtonpost, foxnews, msnbc, nytimes, etc to destabilize the concept of truth. But…
The idea of truth based on recorded media is a boat that sailed away long long ago. People are very used to being deceived by advertising in general and political media especially. The article mentions certain politicians dismissing any media critical of them as AI deepfakes, a claim the article then instantly fact-checks (without irony). Denial and lies are not new in any sense. Fake media is not new, and analog fak…
If you’re struggling to imagine AI having a significant and measurable impact, then I think you’re failing account how many people, who are not extremely gullible, are influenced simply by repetitive narratives and group think. AI will simply accelerate the creation of already effective targeted propaganda.
Like all those people who work for money, to buy things; repeat, repeat.
Take away human language and its hallucinated meaning and we’re just meat based cassette tapes repeating yesterdays application of agency; output complete sentences, feel validated by the dopamine buzz for engaging in anything, eat, shit, go to bed.
A whole lot of daily life is just repeating yourself. Office jobs are “capitulate to group think”. Society requires a whole lot of capitulate to group think; everyone needs a tribe and finds one in the end.
Only people working directly on infrastructure, health, and tech breakthroughs are moving the needle and even then in small repetitive steps.
If you think you’re above that altogether then you’re the one chanting propaganda. Given the complexity of the universe, no center, you have no idea if you’re moving anything forward or backward; you can’t even point in the direction “forward”. Make more 1900s technology and software? Repeat. yawn
Time to repeat sleep. Good night.
The idea of truth based on recorded media is a boat that sailed away long long ago. People are very used to being deceived by advertising in general and political media especially. The article mentions certain politicians dismissing any media critical of them as AI deepfakes, a claim the article then instantly fact-checks (without irony). Denial and lies are not new in any sense. Fake media is not new, and analog fak…
> The idea of truth based on recorded media is a boat that sailed away long long ago. And if it was ever here, it was only here for the blink of an eye, relatively speaking. Almost all of human history took place before recorded media was invented.
Unless I missed the headline where AGI and a sentinent system has come online.