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Defence force top brass shares fears about AI causing 'truth decay' (inqld.com.au)

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Defence force top brass shares fears about AI causing 'truth decay'::Australia's defence force chief General Angus Campbell has warned artificial intelligence might harm democracies through "truth decay," as people are unable to distinguish fact from fiction.

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[-] boatswain@infosec.pub 47 points 1 year ago

The thing is, truth decay has been going on for a while now. 2016 was of course the year of "alternative facts," but even before then anyone with sufficient money and/or clout could redefine truth to some degree.

What we're going to see with ChatGPT and deepfakes is really just a democratization of truth decay: what was once the province of only a few will now be open to us all.

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

COVID was also a big one. From memory almost all of the misinformation originated from something like 12 people.

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