When will the media realize the Facebook misinformation problem isn't easily fixable via humans or AI, is endemic to a planet's-worth of humans interacting unmediated via social apps, and will always be there in some form, assuming there's a semblance of free speech?
What's funny is even if you're right, we're still fucked. In a world of wildly divergent values, truth alone is enough to get to Civil War II levels of polarization. Nobody needed to do a viral deepfake of the Kavanaugh hearings for that to become what it did.
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I hate to go all Notebook, but it is conceivable that a way out of this is not in ‘the tech’ but ~within ourselves~. Were a credible authority to argue convincingly that (for eg) sharing fake news was morally wrong, then we might see some changes
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Yes. The only way out of this is human culture around media and virtualized identity changing. Most polls show major differences between pre and post-Internet generations and their views on things like privacy, or discernment between real and fake news. But that takes a while.
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