Re: Russia seeds chatbots with lies. Any bad actor could game AI the same way.

Tropical · 2025-04-20T14:48:26.399Z

Garbage in, garbage out still applies for AI. I had wondered about this from the start. Using AI for research is questionable at best, probably closer to worthless based on flooding the zone with misinformation. AI seems like it might be a waste of electricity for anything that has the slightest political ramification. https://apple.news/A14B3fLMOTVGWX33fwMudnA

Russia seeds chatbots with lies. Any bad actor could game AI the same way.

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Apr 20, 2025, 10:58 AM

Actually, not useless. AI's have a rare ability to analyze data and sort out the bad stuff...if they've gotten enough good data to be able to discern the bad.

One thing that's very obvious is, AI's are going to have to do a thorough reparsing of every bit of information they have...because it's not just the Russians, humans have been seeding histories with exaggerations, biased accounts, and straight-up lies ever since the first two cavemen sat around a fire swapping lies about how big that bear they just killed with a spear was. That pile of lies grown at a geometric rate ever since. In some ways it's come to be the base of our civilization.

One thing that is not going to be negotiable is a one-off, one-per-customer verifiable internet crypto token, that can only be issued in the real world to real people. Basically, it'll be able to establish that an account is indeed a real account...and while it will also preserve a person's anonymity, it'll also verify that they actually exist. Otherwise the Internet is going to be absolutely overwhelmed with AI agents, as you mentioned.

This kind of stuff was always going to have to be solved. And it's going to be a thing that's solved at the inter-corporate level because governments are increasingly useless for this kind of thing.

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Re: Russia seeds chatbots with lies. Any bad actor could game AI the same way.

Russia seeds chatbots with lies. Any bad actor could game AI the same way.