This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
A somewhat more hopeful take is that this strategy could be weaponized against misinformation too.
The truth has the advantage of objective evidence and the disadvantage of needing to be more complicated to incorporate objective evidence.
When it comes to news from out of town, there is no objective evidence, only appeal to authority. The few people willing to personally travel somewhere to testify that it is real can be written off as paid actors (or as AI-generated if you aren't seeing their testimony live).
So in almost all scenarios with this technology, the truth would have the disadvantage but not the advantage. An arms race between pro-truth and anti-truth AI would be the anti-truth AI winning because it can tell the more convenient lie.
My hopeful take is that it will make proper citation an essential life skill, with everyone who believes stories without citation getting scammed until they know better and everyone who doesn't cite sources being disbelieved. And that, as such, people will organically build up transparent citation networks that they rely on for information, meaning they can more effectively filter out advertisement, propaganda, memes, and lies.
It's already happening. Aren't spam bots somewhat like AI agents?
Excited to see smear campaigns that become increasingly surreal and disturbing
At least 30% of the population will never notice
well shit, first writing hit pieces, now this.
first writing hit pieces, then hitting targets with drones
