Posted by SEJeff 16 hours ago
Since we've been kids we've been taught, hopefully, that lying is bad.
Society though normalize it :
- advertisement is pretty much always wrong (to the point of having laws in Japan about food packaging, France about modeling, etc) and the deception is the message
- entrepreneurs promises, nobody reach the goals set to VCs, it's always a lower number no matter the KPI. See https://elonmusk.today where the wealthiest man on Earth, ever, keeps on lying pretty much daily.
- political promises, no need to even give examples of that because it's just pervasive.
so... yeah, we keep on telling our kids "Do as I say, not as I do." then we somehow keep on being shocked that the practice of lying is pretty much happening in every corner of our society.
It's not a technical problem.
Lying at scale is basically information noise.
I can easily see how such a hierarchy would reproduce ... until it fails so bad it can't.
I've wanted to come up with my own for a while ...
Asking Opus 4.7 who the reigning 6nimmt! champion is leads to this article and a warning about a possible hoax
"AI told me that..."
In the old days, it would have been "I read on Google..."