What I find surprising in the debate about AI and hallucinations is that everyone points the fact that’s it’s very dangerous and it will spread misinformation… But the problem is the inability or unwillingness to fact check our information.
Nobody wants to fact check something they saw on meta or tik tok. Nobody will. There is no difference between someone trusting some random influencer and someone trusting an AI. They are both set to fail the same way. Both lack critical thinking.
Instead of being afraid of AI and hallucinations we should be investing massively in teaching the newer generations on fact checking and critical thinking.
IA is a great assistant but only if you can fact check it. If you can’t or won’t then it’s a terrible assistant that will set you up to fail.
To be clear, I also struggle to fact check stuff and I definitely was misinformed many times in the past. Nobody is really immune to that problem. IMO IA doesn’t change much about that problem.
If you have to fact check everything it says, we’re better off as a species boiling the developers in dog shit.
“we’ve added a profoundly energy intensive feature that is wrong most of the time” okay, get in the vat.
get in the vat.
But you shouldn’t have to actively fact check every headline from the BBC because their headline doesn’t actually say what you read.
And there’s very little value to “summarizing messages” if you aren’t actually summarizing messages and the content doesn’t match the summary.
Yes, you should do more critical thinking, but lowering the quality of information of every interaction with the internet very clearly makes things worse.
What I find surprising is that so many people (i.e. you) still claim to fact check everything. You don’t. I guarantee it.
Most people don’t read news for a living. You can’t fact check everything you read online. That’s physically impossible. And if you’d be honest to yourself, 95% of headlines you read are just noise and you don’t read any further. Not because you’re too stupid, but because you’re not that interested in Trump’s latest shenanigans or Italy’s economic outlook.
You didn’t even read my entire comment…
Read it entirely and you will see that this aggressive tone wasn’t necessary or justified.
