Fake News: What About Information Overload + Scaled Stupidity?
It seems like we have been hearing about fake news for a hot minute now, but usually the context of “fake news” is that one ideological side claims the other ideological side is using it, I.e. Trump saying that Harris used AI on her Detroit airport shows (Trump loves to say “fake news”) or far-left lunatics claiming something about Palestine. We have lots of discussions about fake news, disinformation, misinformation, and how it supposedly “divides” us, but then at the same time, most Americans barely pay attention to politics and definitely don’t vote at-scale, so I’m not sure what it’s actually doing to us. Bonus: millions of people now use ChatGPT, which is mostly pretty good but does have lots of factual errors throughout different prompts. That’s only going to make the whole “misinformation” thing worse.
Here is Ted Koppel doing a segment on fake news, which oddly opens with an AI-generated image of Hilary Clinton delivering a pizza while wielding a gun.
