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OPINION: Are We Having a Moral Panic Over Misinformation? (undark.org)
submitted 1 year ago by HowRu68@lemmy.world to c/europe@feddit.de
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"I don’t like this whole talk of ‘we’re living in a post-truth world,’ as if we ever lived in a truth world"

Ever since the first humans developed language, we’ve been navigating an information landscape pitted with lies, tall tales, myths, pseudoscience, half-truths, and plain old inaccuracies.

*Personally, I don't agree with some statements, but I must acknowledge that panic and being judgemental also won't help us out. In this day and age proper contact appears to have become more difficult, and that's without the pitfalls of mis- and or disinformation. *

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[-] sonnenzeit@feddit.de 23 points 1 year ago

Search results being polluted by llm content is so annoying. As if all the SEO didn't do enough already to bring down overall web quality.

Recently I was searching for some technical guidance on how to do a particular thingy with the IPython coding framework and found just the right page. Except when I tried to run the examples, nothing worked because it was all made up! The entire site/domain was a collection of machine generated answers made to look like blog posts to common programming questions (which they probably scraped from some site with real human collaboration).

I can't even.

[-] HowRu68@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@jsdz@lemmy.ml and @sonnenzeit@feddit.de, Both are great examples.

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