What we’ve been getting wrong about AI’s truth crisis | MIT Technology Review

Even when content is revealed to be manipulated, it still shapes our beliefs. The defenders of truth are hopelessly behind.

What we’ve been getting wrong about AI’s truth crisis | MIT Technology Review Skip to Content This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here . What would it take to convince you that the era of truth decay we were long warned about—where AI content dupes us, shapes our beliefs even when we catch the lie, and erodes societal trust in the process—is now here? A story I published last week pushed me over the edge. It also made me realize that the tools we were sold as a cure for this crisis are failing miser

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