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this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2023
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The thing is, truth decay has been going on for a while now. 2016 was of course the year of "alternative facts," but even before then anyone with sufficient money and/or clout could redefine truth to some degree.
What we're going to see with ChatGPT and deepfakes is really just a democratization of truth decay: what was once the province of only a few will now be open to us all.
COVID was also a big one. From memory almost all of the misinformation originated from something like 12 people.