Comment on You Can't Trust the Internet Anymore

Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• asbestos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Insert last part of the page:

  And if your answer is to just say “Um, Nicole, you could never trust the internet, people could tell lies or even just honest mistakes about topics, you do it all the time”, please try to understand the point I’m trying to make beyond just a reading of the headline.

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  • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I read the whole thing and I wasn’t 100% what the point was beyond the title. I still feel like responding with “it always has been.”

    I guess it’s that they like to give new websites she finds the benefit of the doubt for the off chance that she might gain new knowledge about a subject, but:

    • people perpetuate misinformation to make a quick buck off as revenue

    • LLMs make the problem even worse

    • they feel powerless to do anything about it

    None of which is an excitingly new revelation if you have been paying attention for the last decade or so.

    But as someone looking for a copy of Phantasy Star, I found out there’s a reprint of it on Genesis thanks to this blog, so that’s good! Now to see if they’re telling the truth…

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    • cheesorist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      LLMs make the problem even worse

      its way worse, a couple of years ago id look something up (had to be somewhat popular) and find a few clearly bullshit articles because they follow similar scripts, and rarely make new ones.

      nowadays every time I look something up there’s a new ai article site that talks about this very niche thing im looking for, and skimming through it looks somewhat convincing

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• tidderuuf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s an older meme sir, but it checks out.

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