With the rise of AI, social media platforms face storm of misinformation in 2024

If everybody has access to the omnipotent troll farms, isn't there a balance of bullshit?

Mutually Assured Deception?

I retain doubts about the seriousness of the issues: The Russian Troll Farms were going to end Democracy and Truth and all that beginning in 2015. Now the threat is just the same but the actor is different?

OK, so there's misinformation from industrial scale propaganda dissemination, there's misinformation from hallucination, but I think a less talked about aspect of LLM generalization of misinformation is to look at LLM's as a tool that will actually train us to think in a certain way. LLM's coupled with desirability bias could lead to a decrease in critical thought.

Wrote more about that here: https://patdel.substack.com/p/it-was-good-talking-to-you-as-...

My hope is that people growing up in this new world are going to be better trained to cope with misinformation.