> Specifically because if you talk to the extremists, they didn't become that way by way of convincing fake news: They became that way by extremely unconvincing fake news that suited their pre-existing prejudices.
If it all it did was agree with pre-existing prejudices, that's not how they got that way.
And, IME, post political extrenists didn't get that way from fake news at all, but the problem with convincint fake news (whether AI is involved or not) isn’t that it creates extremists or otherwise influences ideology, but the reactions it creates in people applying their non-extremist ideology through the lens of false factual premises.
If it all it did was agree with pre-existing prejudices, that's not how they got that way.
And, IME, post political extrenists didn't get that way from fake news at all, but the problem with convincint fake news (whether AI is involved or not) isn’t that it creates extremists or otherwise influences ideology, but the reactions it creates in people applying their non-extremist ideology through the lens of false factual premises.