Filtering AI Content Will Not Save Us From Ourselves

I guess this is ultimately an “I’m old enough to remember when…” post. In this case, I’m old enough to remember when journalism actually reported on things that happened, instead of merely being opinionated ranting. Don’t get me wrong, opinionated ranting has its place. And I happen to believe the apex of that particular mode of technological expression was/remains blogging. Hence, here I am, engaging in the same… but I’m at least not calling it “journalism.” The other “I’m old enough to…” piece of this particular article linked above from The Verge is: I’m old enough to have worked on prior generations of this content-labeling problem, especially around fake news, satire & mis-/disinformation. For literal aeons, users of web platforms have asked the product masters of those platforms for effective labeling of all different kinds of content. And while many trial solutions have been attempted, very few of them have ever stuck, or caught on in a massive way. Why? Because accurately…