World War II 'rumor clinics' helped America battle wild gossip

Re:World War II 'rumor clinics' helped America battle wild g... by Tadpole9181 on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @06:29PM (#39623143)

This is not a novel problem, historians already deal with this. Written history is rife with lies, inaccuracies, huge holes (often artificially created), and propaganda. The scale may be larger, but the fundamental issue is the same.

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Re:World War II 'rumor clinics' helped America battle wild g... by bobthepanda on Thursday March 07, 2024 @01:52PM (#39633080)

the problem with AI generated content is that this starts extending into areas that didn't really have much of a reason to lie in the first place.

as a general example, there wasn't much propaganda value in lying about food, so for the most part we can trust those descriptions to be true, particularly in guides intended to be written as cookbooks. in 2024, we have legion accounts making fake recipes for the sole purpose of getting clicks for ad dollars.

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