There's literally MIT rocket scientists and Pulitzer prize winners who get drawn into this shit, so don't think education level is some prophylactic against the hell the platforms have created.
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Ben Werdmuller
Christ. Just came downstairs to find my dad watching an entirely AI-generated YouTube video about an event that didn't happen involving the Pope. Had to convince him the whole think was fake. "How can you tell?" he asked. He has five degrees including a PhD.
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Or perhaps they could…
Complete character swap.
Hasn't got a nice word to say about anyone. Can't hold a conversation anymore.
X force feeding her lies all day.
We haven't spoken in over a year. I've resided to the fact she's gone.
Jan, and I'll leave it at that too. There's no breaking thru once they're successfully indoctrinated.
The older generations don't just
Stuff’s going to have to pass through editorial reviews and legal departments in order to ensure legitimacy. If we get rid of those in favor of AI, I predict life’s going to get real bad.
Mysteriously, a bunch of guys who were taught to code and that anything that doesn't make them money is beneath them turned out very gullible.
A professor a handshake away denied vaccination because "Bill Gates put chips in vaccines" (Sputnik V)
The problem is that we still do not use such technology (it exists) because tech ignorance and UI-implementation confusions.
And it's also very dangerous to think you're immune to misinformation. None of us are.
Sophists and rhetoricians for hire and the rich and powerful who could afford them, on the other hand ...
There is no One Neat Trick to immunise you against mental health problems any more than physical health problems.
Anything other than that isn't humanities but politics and rhetorics in the service of power.
If you want to argue the value in studying the humanities isn’t the study as an end unto itself but a kind of inoculation against believing stupid or bad things, you need empirical data it does that. But the data doesn’t show that.
It was very interesting, informative, and gave me some hope for the future.
Rocket scientists were - historically at least - the least mentally stable(/most biographically 'interesting') - so maybe not the best example.
And that wasn't just his early generation when rocketry was viewed as straight-up loony-tunes quackery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logicomix