• exohuman@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Honestly, the right wing politicians in the USA thrust us into a post truth world early, before AI had a chance to.

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      1 year ago

      So it’s a recent phenomenon that people have expected news to be neutral. Historically, everyone figured there was always some sort of bias. When I say recent, I mean the past 30 or 40 years. And news always had some kind of falsehood to it, either as a tilted analysis, omission of details, or even straight lies.

      I think it’s more the arrival of social media that allowed bad actors to get their bogus news out so much faster. By reducing the barrier to entry, organizations that could fail if seen as illegitimate are no longer the gatekeepers of information. Of course, that wasn’t a perfect system anyway (see Fox News), but it prevented things from catching like wildfire.

      The 24-hour news cycle didn’t help, either

      But fuck US politicians, right wing ones particularly so

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      Or you know, the first people that decided to lie, cheat or steal? So all of humanity.

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        No, not all humanity. Yes, lying has always existed, but simple lies are not how we got to the post-truth era. I am blaming post-truth era here on USA’s right wing. The sheer number of fabrications that lead to unjust action is astounding. It’s basically the whole platform and has millions of Americans engaged in outright harm to each other based on those lies. They take advantage of many Americans inability (or unwillingness) to see through the deceit. AI will make that worse, but these guys have sometimes taken over the country with it.