Also knowns as the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle

  • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 month ago

    If anything, it demonstrates that the law has mathematical validity. Fact-checking simply requires more work than making shit up. Even when AI gets to the point where it can do research and fact-check things effectively (which is bound to happen eventually), it’ll still be able to produce bullshit in a fraction of that time, and use that research ability to create more convincing bullshit.

    Fact-checking requires rigor. Bullshit does not. There’s no magic way to close that gap.

    However, most social media sites already implement rate limits on user submissions, so it might actually be possible to fact-check people’s posts faster than they are allowed to make them.

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      1 month ago

      Yeah, the AI stuff is suffering from this right now.

      It has generated the best bullshit it can, and is now unable to differentiate it from the human created content it uses to learn from.

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        It’s because AI is still stuck in the mimic phase. Once we figure out how to actually get it to learn in a structured manner, that’s the birth of the singularity. I don’t think current tech, even if taken to the extreme will get us there though. Needs to be something new, some different approach. Like how we went from faster and faster single core processes to multi core ones.

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          Maybe we just dedicate a nuclear power plant to running AI, and wait for some type of accident to boost some evolution…