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[Discussion] How can we deal with misinformation? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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With the rapid advances we're currently seeing in generative AI, we're also seeing a lot of concern for large scale misinformation. Any individual with sufficient technical knowledge can now spam a forum with lots of organic looking voices and generate photos to back them up. Has anyone given some thought on how we can combat this? If so, how do you think the solution should/could look? How do you personally decide whether you're looking at a trustworthy source of information? Do you think your approach works, or are there still problems with it?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is an unfortunate future. Unless something is done fast, the majority of content on the internet will simply be generated content with bots interacting with other bots.

Unless we only allow users who verify their identity to participate on certain websites, I can't see how else you could solve this problem.

Even then, some bad actors with a verified identity could be generating content using AI and posting it as their own.

I'm not even sure how anyone will be able to trust or believe any photo, video, or written idea online in the next 5 to 10 years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I think the idea with a verified identity is that each person only gets one. If that is the case and you find misinformation from them, it's easy to block the one account. It's not so easy to block if there are thousands of accounts made by the same person.

I don't know how you would be able to enforce a one ID per person limit though. Government identification requires either trust in the government and/or in the entity verifying your identity, and your government providing useful identification in the first place. Phones numbers don't work because a single person can acquire multiple numbers, many have none, and numbers get transferred to different people.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think the way that Bing has very clearly left footnotes for it's sources and uses meta data on generated images is probably the best way forward at the moment. The tools creating the problems should be helping combat this first and foremost, especially since other means will take time (eg: legislation or better national ID systems).

Where those solutions fall short is where other means can fill the gaps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

the way that Bing has very clearly left footnotes for it's sources [...] is probably the best way forward at the moment

This brings us to the issue of being reliant on one entity (Bing) to decide whether the source is reliable. How do we know if this entity can be trusted, and how can we know if that ever changes? Assuming we can trust them, this just passes the problem onto someone else. How would this entity decide whether sources are reliable or not before feeding them to us?

Can you elaborate a bit on what you mean by metadata on generated images? What kind of metadata and what can you do with them?

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