Let’s not pretend there’s nothing that can be done just because you can’t automate it all away. In fact the automation is the problem in this case (filter bubbles, algorithms that promote extremist and conspiracy content, etc). Worst still is the confidence we place in automationhttps://twitter.com/balajis/status/1198727092835364864 …
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You might take his point as illustrating the difficulty of determining truth. Ok, fine, it can be difficult. But again the current situation of actively promoting/filtering for intentionally crafted falsehoods and misinformation? That can be identified and dealt with.
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Agreed. Has anyone run Twitter through
@allen_ai 's http://grover.allenai.org fake news detector component? It'd be a fun exercise. Author@rown maybe knows… source to this magical creation here https://github.com/rowanz/grover#NLProc1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
I really like that tools like this are being worked on. I suspect it’ll be many years before we can rely on them and I do worry that a focus only on tools and not the human element would just promote an automation arms race much like with captcha.
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