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0 pointsHWR_143y ago0 comments

I don't see how references and providence will solve that problem. References are trivial for machine-generated content to add. And the providence of a new author and a new AI are the exact same.

Unless your plan is to require a PhD to publish a book on Amazon on something.

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colordrops3y ago· 4 in thread

References are used to trace back to source material. Once you've verified that the source material is truthful, you have started building trust in the author. Over time you can trust this author without verifying every single datum they publish. This is how trust works. We do it all the time to more or less of a degree. No PhD required. What's the issue here?

Machine may easily add references to truthful sources from what is bogus content.

colordrops3y ago

If it's machine generated or not doesn't matter. It's whether the content derives properly from truthful sources. If it's machine generated but true, so what?

HWR_14OP3y ago

That doesn't sound like a solution for machine-generated content. That's a solution for misinformation. Different problem.

Although machine generated content will make the misinformation problem much worse.

colordrops3y ago

True, but if you can still discerb truth from misinformation, perhaps it won't be so sad

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