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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

Anton Savage. ‘Elon Musk’s X, Meta, and Google’s Youtube have all proven themselves capable of and willing to censor content they disagree with’

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 ...