Re:GPT2, Counting Consciousness and the Curious Hacker
by wyldfire on Saturday June 08, 2019 @11:03AM
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> But why do we trust the New York Times? Because the New York Times is composed of humans using their brains to do exactly what these detection algorithms try to do
This reasoning sounds circular and doesn't go deep enough. Couldn't NYT or individual reporters at NYT abuse our trust on rare occasions if they felt the stakes were high? Couldn't they unintentionally mislead us because they were mislead by a source? No: we trust NYT because they have a financial interest in being a reliable source of news. People wouldn't read NYT anymore if they thought that they didn't take that responsibility seriously.
This reasoning sounds circular and doesn't go deep enough. Couldn't NYT or individual reporters at NYT abuse our trust on rare occasions if they felt the stakes were high? Couldn't they unintentionally mislead us because they were mislead by a source? No: we trust NYT because they have a financial interest in being a reliable source of news. People wouldn't read NYT anymore if they thought that they didn't take that responsibility seriously.