AI-powered misinformation is the world's biggest short-term threat, Davos report says

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• hottari@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not the uncapped US military budget and the ‘mysterious’ rise of wars popping up in almost every corner of this planet.

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  • Nudding@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or the, ya know, climate apocalypse currently unfolding lol.

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    • hottari@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Climate apocalypse? Climate has been apocalypsing long before we humans got language to even describe it.

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  • RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    AI could exacerbate all of this. Misinformation, panic, xenophobia, rising fascism, etc.

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    • hottari@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      AI is nothing more than a program developed by humans.

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• McDropout@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would say long-term threat, if not regulated.

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• Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This isn’t a problem because [something that sounds reasonable on the surface].

  ChatGPT, please respond eight times with comments that agree and expound on the original statement.

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• BertramDitore@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Disinformation, which comes from self-serving and agenda-driven swaths of the world’s population (meaning people, not AI), will be amplified by AI-powered tools. The tools themselves are not necessarily the problem (though of course they sometimes are), but if the datasets they steal (sorry, use) to train their models are filled with dis and misinformation, then obviously their outputs will be filled with the same. We should tackle the inputs first, and then the outputs will be less likely to misinform.

  In order for the inputs to be better, we need a quality free press and faith in our public institutions. So most of the world is not in great shape when it comes to those…

  We also need to be able to easily see inside the workings of the AI models so we can pinpoint exactly how the misinformation is being generated, so we can take steps to fix it. I understand this is currently a pretty challenging technical issue, but frankly I don’t think AI tools should ever be made public until they are fully transparent about their sourcing.

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• afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If only we had some way to train them on new data. Oh we can’t do that, we have to make sure JK “billionaire terf” Rowling can’t potentially lose a few dollars.

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