This is the mark of oppressive regimes, right? The details aren’t what matters (or, really, how they were drawn), but the plausible appearance of conclusions that fit the party line. Criticism? Just ignorable dissidents that no one important will hear.
We’re going to see a lot more of this, as chatbots are, unfortnately, rather good at making shallowly plausible walls of text. It’s easy for a lazy, incompetent person to do.
AI can be used to fact check papers too (for example, programatically following citations to see if they’re real, uncontroversial, or at least somewhat sensible), but it’s more technical to implement, and even if it wasn’t, that doesn’t even matter. This admin can simply shrug of any longwinded criticism as partisan and move onto the next controversy, knowing full well attention spans are too short to care. In other words, the information environment is the fundamental issue here.
This is the mark of oppressive regimes, right? The details aren’t what matters (or, really, how they were drawn), but the plausible appearance of conclusions that fit the party line. Criticism? Just ignorable dissidents that no one important will hear.
We’re going to see a lot more of this, as chatbots are, unfortnately, rather good at making shallowly plausible walls of text. It’s easy for a lazy, incompetent person to do.
AI can be used to fact check papers too (for example, programatically following citations to see if they’re real, uncontroversial, or at least somewhat sensible), but it’s more technical to implement, and even if it wasn’t, that doesn’t even matter. This admin can simply shrug of any longwinded criticism as partisan and move onto the next controversy, knowing full well attention spans are too short to care. In other words, the information environment is the fundamental issue here.