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Top news app caught sharing “entirely false” AI-generated news
(arstechnica.com)
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It's almost like they are trying to shoehorn AI into anything and everything regardless of whether it is a good fit, and regardless of whether the technology is ready, and regardless of the outcome. Like blockchain. And IoT. And Angry Birds. (j/k on that last one. Kinda.)
But that's none of my business, I'm just a puppet frog drinking tea.
This is most definitely a feature here. What ARS won’t say (but their source articles do) is that Newsbreak is an app right out of China. That’s why they don’t care that this creates entirely fictional stories. This is the leftwing equivalent of all those rightwing agitprop sites that pretend to be local news in order to trick people
Oh wow, I did not read the source Reuters article and yeah it's a Chinese project.
This is the kind of stuff that should make Americans evaluate whether their orthodox and somewhat parochial approach to "free speech" (the polemical definition as opposed to the broad concept) needs updating to reflect modern realities.
Even before AI and digitization, there were many examples of how an American interpretation of free speech was clearly lacking, but this AI spam and strategic methods used by russia/China are going to make these deficiencies a much more pressing matter.
Oh wow. I've been considering checking out News Break for a bit. I'm glad I saw this.
Like cloud, too. Behind the Bastards did an episode on these trends. He had an interesting take. I guess “AI” and/or the tech bros who pump and dump these tech trends one after the other were the bastards.