re: Could a News Media station run entirely by Truth and AI take off in the USA?

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“Reality has become pixels, and pixels are now infinitely inventable,” Graziano told Wired magazine. “We can create them any way we want to.” His fear is that AI likely could make it easier to convince people of what we now call fake news. Michal Kosinski, a computational psychologist and associate professor of organizational behavior at Stanford University, says, “We are sliding, very quickly, towards an AI-controlled and AI-dominated world.”

Truth is complicated but essential. The scientific community tends to shy away from the notion of absolute truths, as scientific theory is often tested, substantiated, and sometimes disproven. Relative truth is — as it sounds — relative. But AI’s computer-generated decisions seem essentially scientific and driven by data, therefore hard to dispute or ignore.

When AI produces a resume or calls for a criminal prosecution, it’s hard to imagine how human implementers will question algorithmic statements of absolute truth. And that brings us to a precipice of truth, as we look over the edge.

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