"Looking at the demand for misinformation tells us that as long as people have certain worldviews, they will seek out and find information consistent with those views. Depending on what someone’s worldview is, the information in question is often misinformation—or at least would be considered misinformation by those with differing worldviews."

#SayashKapoor, #ArvindNarayanan, 2024

https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/we-looked-at-78-election-deepfakes

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#disinformation #misinformation

The valuable part of the work was the annotations, not the transcription, and we were always shorthanded, and automated transcription would have freed up a set of hands - and a mind - to make sense of the delegates' remarks and explain them to others.

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https://aisnakeoil.substack.com/

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It's great to start reading of #HarryFrankfurt's work on #Bullshit.^1

I just learned of it while reading a conversation between #JuliaAngwin and #ArvindNarayanan^2about #AISnakeOil. It keeps making me think of #NeilPostman's Amusing Ourselves to Death, and marketing... lack of humility, "irrational exuberance"..

^1 https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691122946/on-bullshit
^2 https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/01/28/decoding-the-hype-about-ai