Post #1552998
2026-03-26 13:31 UTC
Imagine the opportunities for people pushing pseudoscience like Creationism or vaccine denial, or political propaganda, or corporate FUD.
In some ways, it's an extension of conventional SEO, which has always aimed to "put your story first", but now the untruths are delivered with the authority of "AI" (argumentum ab roboto), not just on search results pages, but in any other context where a naive user interacts with an LLM, e.g. with a chatbot.
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@angusm@mastodon.social 2026-03-26 13:38
Model training often weights certain sources as more authoritative than others, so volume isn't the only thing that counts, and that weighting is reflected in the model. But what happens when "authoritative” sources are themselves biased? 4/