Clashing approaches to combat AI's 'perpetual bulls**t machine' | TechCrunch
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"We've always had BS in politics, and a lot of politicians use lying as an art, a tool of doing politics. What we have now is is quantitatively different, and to such a scale that it's like comparing the conventional arms race of BS in politics to the nuclear race..."
"It's the economics that have changed so radically: The marginal cost of the production of a piece of disinformation has been reduced to zero by generative AI, and the marginal costs of the distribution of disinformation [is also zero]..."
"I don't think that these transparency reports really do anything, in part because in these transparency reports, they'll say, look at what a great job we're doing: We removed 10s of 1000s of pieces of harmful content..."
"We have to be careful not to throw the baby out with the bath water. There are aspects of social media that can be constructive if managed well..."
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