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In many ways, a half-truth is worse than a simple lie, and there is no guarantee all parties are wrong in their own way:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Poems_of_John_Godfrey_Sax...

Media tends to interview the most outrageous looking imbecile they can find at any event... regardless of political affiliation. The Sinclair Broadcast Group helps local news maintain consistent messaging, and thus any mistakes intentional or not are less noticeable.

Fact-checking is only as good as the data sources people find. There are groups that ran entire fake scientific journals to sell the public outright nonsense.

Verifiable facts are difficult to validate. "AI"/LLM slop content just made it worse =3



Those who do not understand how AI works might think that it might correct all the falsehoods that come along. But if an LLM is trained on data full of errors and falsehoods, then the resulting model will only reenforce them rather than correct them.




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