With LLM and hallucinating AI our access to unfiltered, correct information is filtered in a way that it's just getting harder and harder to learn the correct thing. This is not what tech progress should be? Is there hope that GPT 5 or next one will be able give correct information? We peaked accesing to correct information years ago. Now everything is filtered or will be made via BS AI so much that it will just so hard and time consuming to know the truth. Not trying to be pessimist this is sad reality.
Do you all realize that accessing to correct information+truth is getting hard?
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#2Frankly, I noticed a cliff-dive in information veracity the moment social media started getting popular. It's a great tool for whistleblowers, but also the perfect stage for attention-seeking sensationalists.
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#3"correct information" ... you may have been placing too much faith in what's been available before the output of LLM's became widespread.
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#4Frankly, I noticed a cliff-dive in information veracity the moment social media started getting popular. It's a great tool for whistleblowers, but also the perfect stage for attention-seeking sensationalists.
I agree, this has much more to do with social media, internet, and the impact that had on the news industry business model. Everything became a competition for attention and the most clicks. Outrage is winning
Jon Stewart had a great segment on this yesterday: https://x.com/TheDailyShow/status/1792752676830085605
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#5Frankly, I noticed a cliff-dive in information veracity the moment social media started getting popular. It's a great tool for whistleblowers, but also the perfect stage for attention-seeking sensationalists.
AI is on a completely differnt level than social media. With social media, you can still find information if you do some research. With AI, even supposetly reliable sources will be indistinguishable from fake ones. Scientific researchers are using AI indiscriminately, governments, etc. It will get to the point where when asked to show proof of something, you'll realize there is no way to actually find it.
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#6I suggest these things printed on dead trees called "books" with publication dates in 2021 or earlier or from established publishers which don't print a Word doc emailed them by "T.T. Notchatgpt"
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#7"correct information" ... you may have been placing too much faith in what's been available before the output of LLM's became widespread.
Yeah. LLMs are going to make it worse. But between propaganda, shills, people with ideological axes to grind, advertising, and others that had reason to try to obscure the truth, finding correct, unbiased information was not easy.
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#8Frankly, I noticed a cliff-dive in information veracity the moment social media started getting popular. It's a great tool for whistleblowers, but also the perfect stage for attention-seeking sensationalists.
AI is on a completely differnt level than social media. With social media, you can still find information if you do some research. With AI, even supposetly reliable sources will be indistinguishable from fake ones. Scientific researchers are using AI indiscriminately, governments, etc. It will get to the point where when asked to show proof of something, you'll realize there is no way to actually find it.
What were you using to discriminate between true information and false before?
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#9Don't forget true factual information disappearing due to things like the GDPR Right to be Forgotten. It's not just about creation of misinfo, but also about censorship of true info.
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#10Does anyone know a way to get a full dump of pre-2021 Wikipedia?
Their dumps page only has current dumps.
I know it’s not perfect (i.e. anyone can edit Wikipedia), but I think having it would be a good hedge in case things get really bad.