Do we though? Yes, the truth is more easily to find but so is a ton of other stuff. Flooding the zone makes the truth more difficult to find.
And while this is arguably the first genocide that’s live streamed, the Vietnam War was already televised and it had similar effects. Also, in the past it was easier to have a newspaper so both truth and fake news were easy to multiply. I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m just saying it isn’t as new and unique a situation as it might look like.
He saw the entire problem of an overwhelming amount of dubious slop being produced on the internet, to the point that AIs would be constructed to manage and curate this information.
This is literally the plot of MGS2, released in 2001, very early days of the ‘public’ internet.
… but no one came up with a better solution to the problem.
When that game came out, that was a futuristic sci-fi political thriller (also arguably cyberpunk) plot.
Do we though? Yes, the truth is more easily to find but so is a ton of other stuff. Flooding the zone makes the truth more difficult to find.
And while this is arguably the first genocide that’s live streamed, the Vietnam War was already televised and it had similar effects. Also, in the past it was easier to have a newspaper so both truth and fake news were easy to multiply. I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m just saying it isn’t as new and unique a situation as it might look like.
Hideo Kojima literally predicted this.
He saw the entire problem of an overwhelming amount of dubious slop being produced on the internet, to the point that AIs would be constructed to manage and curate this information.
This is literally the plot of MGS2, released in 2001, very early days of the ‘public’ internet.
… but no one came up with a better solution to the problem.
When that game came out, that was a futuristic sci-fi political thriller (also arguably cyberpunk) plot.
Now, it’s basically just reality.