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Anton Savage: Misinformation is about to be turbo-charged, and we need to be ready for it
The crowdsourcing of truth may be popular with the likes of Elon Musk, but it will be a disaster for the rest of us
We are on a precipice. The exponential growth in the sophistication of AI, combined with the accelerating descent of moral oversight within the tech giants, is rapidly bringing us to a point where truth will no longer be an objective reality but rather a consensus crowd-sourced from those who are loudest, most vile and most hateful.
X owner Elon Musk has long touted such a model, suggesting that his app’s system of mob regulation is ...