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I honestly believe this is how the world's information will continue to be filtered more and more, and the information that is 'disliked' will be slowly wound out from society. All that ever comes to mind is re-writing news articles in 1984 and see this fully ending at that point.

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AI is used to translate news stories already. There is a news site in Poland called onet.pl. They use AI to translate stories from Politico and other foreign sources into Polish. The AI they are using cannot translate correctly from English (a non-gendered language) into Polish (a gendered language) and will often swap gender mid-translation, e.g. it will add words like "he said" while citing what a woman said. You can figure out what was meant if it is a story about one person, but when two or more are being quoted the translation turns into a mess with the reader unable to figure out who said what. The AI also makes grammar errors and throws in random words for a good measure. This automated garbage is then hoovered up by search engines and used for training models.

A great example. It doesn't even have to be out of malice as your example shows, just automation without actual checksums.

"For the greater good" ism will just naturally evolve and thoughts / works / stances distant from the median will simply become absorbed and disappear from what we call knowledge.

This is how 'AI' takes over.

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