Will AI Create More Fake News Than It Exposes?
As the technology spreads, it will force media consumers and producers to change the way they use the internet.
AI can help find real news, too.
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The best large-language models can already write like humans, especially if prompted properly. Photos and images can be faked at low cost. Yet-to-be-released technology can create convincing voice simulations. There are signs that some academic papers contain traces of GPT-4. If even professors are faking it, then surely the dam has burst.
In other words: As the AI revolution spreads, so will the AI-enabled fakes. This is an inevitability, but it can be managed — so long as consumers and producers make significant adjustments in the way they use the internet.