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This tech can easily be used to flood humanity’s shared brain with auto-generated propaganda. Schizophrenia of the internet in a way. There is plenty of incentive with Google algorithms favoring number of words and relevant keywords in content for rankings - you could have NLP bots lifting junk sites to top results.

To step ahead in that chess game, a detection tool for fake would be just training grounds for better GAN. Instead we may see a certifying authority that labels content as human generated, certified fact maybe? Wikipedia and reddit are not safe without fast automatic moderation either.

Do you have a brainstorm or idea/prototype submission site where people can submit approaches to countering bad ai actors? An white/grey hat ai bounty program of sorts?




Web of trust. Your results and how much you trust given text is based on who gave it to you. You assign trust to people you know, then it's a small world effect and recursive trust calculation based on who they trust.

Centralization won't work. Whether something is good or bad or fake must be subjective and based on your personal network / your beliefs. Otherwise, long term, I don't see how you could avoid dystopia.


This has a dangerous implication that we've seen recently with the newsfeed "bubble."

If dissenting opinions are never allowed into your sphere of influence then we may continue to see an accelerating polarization of our society towards extremes.


Bubble that's dangerous for society is when everybody believes the same thing, not when everybody has different set of beliefs.

I know the more popular bubble is information one and you make a fair point, but I believe it's powered more by recommendation systems than the things that you trust.

I got distracted lately and I wanted to clean it up before putting it out there but if somebody is bored: http://comboy.pl/wot.html


Great Idea...but better make sure it's not hosted on the internet.




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