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Here's a bit of a controversial take on why AI might actually improve trust online. So up until now, we've basically been spending the last decade trusting online influencers and experts from arguments from authority. They've got some sort of degree, they've got a lot of followers, so we learn to respect them and trust them. And sometimes that works. Like you can trust doctors on their areas of expertise. You can trust experts and PhDs in various different ways a lot of the time. We've also seen, especially over COVID, that so many people who had these degrees might actually still be spouting nonsense. But on average, you can trust authority because it's a shortcut. It's a mental heuristic to go and indicate that you can trust someone's built-up expertise. However, because we are now at a point where we can basically go and tell a computer to create a video of some expert saying something that is not actually them, it's just a computer. we might have to start actually requiring these people to list sources that are independently verifiable. And if everyone does that, well, the internet could actually become a more trustworthy place. What do you think?
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I’m still absolutely in favor of implelemting the best possible deep fake detection, but we’re entering an era where trust should be build on multiple pillars #ai #deepfakes #musings
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