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Re:India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arr... by shaan7 on Monday May 29, 2023 @09:55AM (#36114009)
I am hoping that AI tooling like this becomes even more widespread (Google Photos is doing that) that more people will finally understand that they cannot trust everything they see online. I hope.
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Re:India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arr... by ceejayoz on Monday May 29, 2023 @10:10AM (#36114154)
But the conclusion becomes “you can’t trust anything”. I worry about a civilization that can’t agree on even the most basic of facts.
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Re:India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arr... by LightBug1 on Monday May 29, 2023 @11:47AM (#36115047)
Welcome ... to the desert of the real.
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Re:India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arr... by denton-scratch on Monday May 29, 2023 @02:34PM (#36116589)
It's not “you can’t trust anything”. It's "you can’t trust anything you're told”.

And that's nothing new. We have been lying since we figured out how to talk.

The sky is not falling.

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Re:India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arr... by shaan7 on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @03:57AM (#36122244)
Indeed. Its not like everything is lost. The majority of the population (anecdotal) jump the gun when it comes to believing a random forwarded message. Just that needs to change to "let me do my research first". That is all.
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Re:India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arr... by pjc50 on Monday May 29, 2023 @10:01AM (#36114049)
That is not an improvement, because it turns "online" (which is basically everything everywhere - all news media, TV, newspapers) into a politically useless wasteland.
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Re:India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arr... by lolinder on Monday May 29, 2023 @10:32AM (#36114396)
"Online" is already a useless, trustless wasteland and has been since at least 2014. If this causes people to finally see it then maybe we can collectively build something better.
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Re:India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arr... by tdehnel on Monday May 29, 2023 @10:22AM (#36114278)
It could just as well be an improvement that makes people smarter, because they will learn not to just believe what they see/hear/read.

Instead, they will have to learn to identify good explanations and rule out bad explanations.

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