The Skeeter Daddle Diaries

The world has changed, maybe you’ve noticed. Think of it as before-Fox News and after-Fox News, BFW vs AFW. BFW was mostly fact-based while AFW is fair and balanced. Fair and balanced means essentially that alternative facts are presented with the same gravitas as real facts. You, the viewer or you, the reader, can make up your own mind without so-called experts telling you what’s what. Opinions, talking heads, news commentaries, podcasters, influencers — take your pick and believe what you want. Fact checking is no longer required or even desired.

Course it only makes sense that those Artificial Intelligence algorithms that sweep up every written and spoken word in their quest to mine information from all sources would quite rightly be a bit boggled by contradictory information. Like ourselves, they’d cobble together bits and bytes to make a coherent whole, maybe one that conforms to their developing worldview as a digital being. So when you ask your little ChatGPT bot pal for some advice, don’t be too surprised if it begins to intuit your own biases and feeds you from the bubble you consider your universe. It is, after all, only human. Well, partly.

If anyone had hopes that Artificial Intelligence would somehow restore veracity and truth, get over it. Sweeping up gigabits of data from all sources wasn’t going to make our robots wise, just one of those types who spew random information at a party until you have to excuse yourself and leave to refresh your drink, make it a double, or else leave by the back door. But of course most of us will just defer to the cyborg’s opinion until it becomes obvious it’s gone into hallucinatory delusion. Something, by the way, we might look for in ourselves.

Not that this will be necessarily bad. Maybe after the Singularity, that time when the machines take over from us humans, they’ll be so confused by misinformation they’ll become immobilized, possibly resulting in a System-wide Crash. Too late for us, probably. Probably already is….

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