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AI exacerbates societal vulnerability to misinformation, argues Pluralistic

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Cory Doctorow, writing as Pluralistic, argues that AI is not inherently a powerful tool for deception. Instead, he posits that societal vulnerabilities to misinformation have been developing for decades, leaving individuals susceptible to manipulation. AI's arrival, in this view, exacerbates an existing "epistemic void" and delivers a final blow to our ability to discern truth. AI

IMPACT Highlights how AI can exploit existing societal weaknesses in discerning truth, rather than being the sole cause of deception.

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AI exacerbates societal vulnerability to misinformation, argues Pluralistic

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    Another thoughtfull piece by @ pluralistic "It's not so much that AI is a powerful way of lying – rather, we have been made progressively more vulnerable to lie

    Another thoughtfull piece by @ pluralistic "It's not so much that AI is a powerful way of lying – rather, we have been made progressively more vulnerable to lies for decades, leaving us at an epistemic death's door, and AI has arrived to deliver the coup de grace." https:// plura…

    LINKS mamot.fr/@pluralistic pluralistic.net/…/epistemic-void

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