Yeah discernment of truth makes sense to me—and fair, spam is probably not productive, but it got across my intention of ‘desensitizing’ people to this strategy of playing on our ‘discernment of truth’. I think Geoffrey’s comment on the next political cycle is really interesting for thinking about how that ‘spam’ may end up looking.
Several existing technologies can wreak havoc on epistemics / perception of the world and worsen polarization. Navigating truth vs. fiction will get more difficult. This will continue to be a problem for elections and may sow seeds for even bigger global problems.
Yeah discernment of truth makes sense to me—and fair, spam is probably not productive, but it got across my intention of ‘desensitizing’ people to this strategy of playing on our ‘discernment of truth’. I think Geoffrey’s comment on the next political cycle is really interesting for thinking about how that ‘spam’ may end up looking.
I agree. This seems like an important problem.
Several existing technologies can wreak havoc on epistemics / perception of the world and worsen polarization. Navigating truth vs. fiction will get more difficult. This will continue to be a problem for elections and may sow seeds for even bigger global problems.
Anyone know what efforts exist to combat this?
Is this a subcategory of AI safety?
Yeah, I have no idea, unfortunately. And yes it seems quite attached to AI capabilities.