Re:Why I'm leaving Medium: AI policy
by rsynnott on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @12:51PM
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> While I'm not about to defend AI blog spam, what you just said it completely applicable to human-generated blogs as well.
It kind of depends on the subject. If the blog is about politics, say, then you may assume that the human author is likely to be willing to lie. If it's about a non-contentious subject, though, then it is highly unlikely the human author will lie, and if they don't know, then, well, okay, _some_ people will write articles about stuff that they don't understand, but it's not common. Most non-psychopaths, if they don't know the answer, won't just make something up.
Whereas the magic robot will very happily spew nonsense on any subject.
It kind of depends on the subject. If the blog is about politics, say, then you may assume that the human author is likely to be willing to lie. If it's about a non-contentious subject, though, then it is highly unlikely the human author will lie, and if they don't know, then, well, okay, _some_ people will write articles about stuff that they don't understand, but it's not common. Most non-psychopaths, if they don't know the answer, won't just make something up.
Whereas the magic robot will very happily spew nonsense on any subject.