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• ↓ A possible solution
• ↓ Classification
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"There is a problem in the ‘infosphere’. In a nutshell: we now have high quality text that has low, zero or even negative value for the reader. Authorship is no longer something you can trust implicitly, even science is not immune to this and the problems seems to be set to become significantly larger in the near future. You could solve this by mandating authors label their work product but if there is money to be made by mis-labeling then you can expect people to do so."

"Wikipedia has been fighting this trend for many years, they position themselves as a tertiary source: they will require references from secondary sources and those secondary sources should report on primary sources. This serves as an input filter of sorts because the assumption that secondary sources are going to do their homework was a good one. Until now."

"Secondary sources are now incentivized to no longer do their homework. Just about every secondary source now uses automatic ways to generate content where it seems quantity, rather than quality has become a driving force. This is the equivalent of replacing quality home cooked food with fastfood: it is much easier to produce low quality food in quantity than it is to produce high quality food in quantity, if it can be done at all."

"AI is a force multiplier here: it allows for the generation of immense quantities of very good looking text but with low quality. The information diet equivalent of fast food. And unlike fastfood, which usually is at least nourishing even if it isn’t the best of foods, the AI work product as a rule is poisonous: it contains ‘hallucinations’, which when allowed to take root can cause false information to spread widely. Now, it could be argued that fast food is when taken in quantity also poisonous so maybe the analogy is stronger than I intend for it to be. But the fact is that a single hamburger is not going to kill you. But a single falsehood just might, especially when the subjects are health, technology, engineering and so on."

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Technology, Coding and Business

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The Problem

A possible solution

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Problems with the above