Re:An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in
by perl4ever on Monday June 15, 2020 @06:28PM
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The proportion of people who will spend 30 seconds with a search engine to check on something is practically infinitesimal. Even people who do it frequently don't do it most of the time. And it doesn't matter anyway, because it's too late - you only have to fool people for a second, or a fraction of a second.
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Re:An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in
by thu2111 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @04:54AM
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Great, so focus on solving that problem generally instead of worrying about AI.
What I see is actually quite different. If the people who could detect fake news was practically infinitesimal then you'd see the vast majority of people having super high trust in the media. In fact most people don't trust the media, lots of polls showing that. Sure they may only fact check something occasionally (often by reading about a topic they happen to understand), but people aren't stupid. After they notice or hear about a few mistakes and observe they're always in the same ideological direction, they get the picture.