The way I see it it’s the scale and access. You can spin up an AI bot and make anything trending without a need to pay for a bot farm. And with how most media sucks at verifing sources it will be reported as truth.
They add human sounding language generation. You look at it as whole, I’m seeing it as a piece of the puzzle that combined will make the issue from an annoying inconvenience to a real problem.
I guess you’re right, every little helps to make things worse. But as I said the mainstream news sources aren’t trustworthy anyways. The media is already ruined behind repair as a source of truth or even valid information.
The way I see it it’s the scale and access. You can spin up an AI bot and make anything trending without a need to pay for a bot farm. And with how most media sucks at verifing sources it will be reported as truth.
ChatGPT can’t make things trending without a bot farm.
Not yet. But it can already connect to the web, so adding ability to create random people looking accounts and mass posting something is not far off.
But we’ve already had bots that do that for years. That’s not what ChatGPT or any of these new fake AGI projects do.
They add human sounding language generation. You look at it as whole, I’m seeing it as a piece of the puzzle that combined will make the issue from an annoying inconvenience to a real problem.
I guess you’re right, every little helps to make things worse. But as I said the mainstream news sources aren’t trustworthy anyways. The media is already ruined behind repair as a source of truth or even valid information.
100% with you there.