Artificial Disinformation: Can Chatbots Destroy Trust on the Internet?
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Artificial Disinformation: Can Chatbots Destroy Trust on the Internet?
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#2There are three major issues with trust. Technology, subversion of technology and culture.
Currently the technology is failing what many hoped it would be. A machine that performs perfect calculations. Instead, the machine is just as fallible as we are and maybe more so. Ironically, the more sophisticated the machine becomes as we try to push closer to AGI, it seems to develop the same problems as organic thinking machines.
Then we have the subversion of technology. AI is orders of magnitude more influential than social media. It will be an attractive target for those powers that wish to exert control over the population.
Finally culturally, AI has the propensity of becoming a cultural drug of indulgence where we try to escape reality. Leading to even greater anxiety than what technology has already produced from social media.
I don't think AI will become what we want it to become, as our human nature is inescapable, as I've written about in the Bias Paradox https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-the-bias-paradox we just encode these problems back into the system.
Re: Artificial Disinformation: Can Chatbots Destroy Trust on the Internet?
#3I see a lot of upsides to the widespread recognition among the general public that not everything you read should be blindly trusted - just extend that skepticism to the leading approved media outlets and the pronouncements of governments, not just to what people write in their blogs and on social media platforms. Of course, blind faith in the pronouncements of ChatGPT is no better.
With ChatGPT, however, you can immediately ask for clarification of a claim, which is often very useful for getting more detailed information. ChatGPT is probably not deliberately trying to misinform you, at least not on questions about programming techniques and other simple informational matters, unlike many human actors with vested interests in spinning information to improve their own personal agenda (*though I haven't yet asked it for a full exposition of Flat Earth Theory, so who knows?). If it seems a bit iffy, run what seem to be the main keywords in the response through a search engine to see what comes up.
The fundamental issue is that all humans need to learn how to curate and test their information flows, at least for self-consistency if nothing else. The loss of trust on the Internet, from this perspective, is something we all should be cheering for - healthy skepticism is not something to worry about, unless your business is peddling propaganda for some interest or other, and your success relies on the audience being gullible and incapable of rational thought and critical analysis of claims.
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