Clarification:
Judging by the fact that AI progress will never stop and will eventually be able to replace truth with fiction, it will become impossible to trust any article, and even if it is possible, not all of them, and we won’t even be able to tell exactly what’s true and what’s fiction.
So, what if people from different countries and regions exchanged contacts here and talked about what’s really happening in their countries, what laws are being passed, etc., and also shared their well-thought-out theories and thoughts?
If my idea works, why not sober up as many people as possible that only similar methods will be able to distinguish reality from falsehood in the future?
I’m also interested in your ideas, as I’m not much of an expert.
Relevant XKCD.
Basically, we’re going to go back to the days assessing likely truth by how much you trust the source. Unfakeable photographic evidence was the irreplaceable thing, and it was nice to have for a while, but it’s definitely not the first time we’ve been without it. AI slop isn’t fundamentally different from human made tall tales.
To a degree I’ve already made the shift, and tend to click more on websites I’m familiar with, while I used to just go by relevance.
Even then, you can probably trust a source to not lie, but you can’t trust them to never get fooled.
Depends on the source. Some older lady I met? Yeah, there’s a high probability they just believe everything in their feed. Bellingcat, on the other hand, is going to make absolutely sure.