The US has been on this path at least since Reagan was president.
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themurphy@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Their biggest and saddest win, is making truth debatable.
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
jansk@beehaw.org 2 months ago
I wish Sagan were still here. We could all use his guidance
GorGor@startrek.website 2 months ago
This isn’t the first time they have tried this
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservapedia
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Holy shit. They claim Einstein’s Theory of Relativity has something to do with moral relativism? That’s so fucking stupid.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
But you see, they share the same word, so must be similar. Big smart. Much literate.
irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Yeah, but this will not require any people to add content since it’s all stollen and simply manipulated which is easier to automate than producing original content which AI can’t be trusted not to hallucinate about quite yet. The idea is to then get the search engine AIs to point there as much as possible as it will likely be optimized for AI scraping rather than human browsing. Then since the AI results are prioritized more and more, they can get their truthiness to be what people see over actual reality.
GorGor@startrek.website 2 months ago
yeah, the back end is the scarier part. I don’t think conservapedia actually added that much content, it just copied Wikipedia and edited the parts they cared about. Automating that, while helpful, isn’t that big a deal IMO. Disseminating the resultant bullshit (with a hint of plausibility) is where the nightmares begin.