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Nominal Animal:

--- Quote from: PlainName on March 07, 2024, 10:37:55 pm ---
--- Quote from: Zero999 on March 07, 2024, 06:32:34 pm ---There is no fix for this. Unfortunately people will believe what they want to. The same is true for laws designed to suppress misinformation on social media. It's better to allow people to post it, then people are free to debunk it.

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Doesn't work like that, I'm afraid.

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What would you do, then?  Allow someone or a panel to judge what is misinformation and what is not?  One such panel was called the inquisition.
Or do you think the inquisition back then was evil and staffed with bad people, and that if you choose better people now, the results will be any different?

tom66:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on March 07, 2024, 10:01:31 pm ---You can only help people build critical thought and learn how to check facts and evidences through education.
Any attempt to do that for them by law is totalitarian in nature and bound to make them more stupid, more dependent and make the very few that statistically will still exist with an ounce of critical thought become paranoid.

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Doesn't help when people become increasingly disconnected from the real world, only getting their news via social media, now flooded with this crap.

Infraviolet:
"The age of being able to trust a video is gone"
I think it went a long time ago. For decades we've had adequate enough special effects to fake a video by adding elements (or rmoeving things) which weren't in the scene the camera was recording, and for as long as even still cameras have existed it has always been possible to selectively pose and aim the camera so it shows what the photographer wants. The camera does not need to lie, in the image editing way, if the image taken has been selected cunningly enough.

The main reason that "AI generated disinformation" seems to make headlines now is because a bunch of failed cademics decided they could invent "disinformation studies" as a cover for their inability to do worthwhile research, then a bunch of governments found that those disinformation "professionals" could be handy allies in their efforts to ensure that only the narratives the big political parties approve of ever get told. Disinformation, misinformation, lies, damned lies (and statistics for dishonest purposes) aren't new, the camera lying isn't new, the main thing that is new is a desire by people in power to tar everything with the disinfo brush.

vad:

--- Quote from: xrunner on March 07, 2024, 02:16:27 pm ---It's just the beginning of all this. Sure a country can try and regulate AI videos but other state actors will not. Soon (if not already) average people won't be able to tell what's true or false by viewing a video on TV or YT.

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We're already at that point even without AI interference. Watching the same news on Fox and CNN might leave one uncertain about which media outlet is telling the truth, if any…

Nominal Animal:

--- Quote from: tom66 on March 08, 2024, 12:29:21 am ---Doesn't help when people become increasingly disconnected from the real world, only getting their news via social media, now flooded with this crap.

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We've lost them already.  They're turning into a hive subspecies, exhibiting increasing hive/nesting behaviour and isolating themselves from objective reality.

I wish I was kidding.

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