AI #32: Lie Detector

The calling for this new internet has never been more dire. As you're reading this, machine learning algorithms are being trained on the billions of gallons of bullshit we spew online each day.

AI-powered document editors, then, among other tools, use all that training data to make it even easier to write outcome-oriented garbage that moves us furt... See more

AI is still in the robot voice phase. Even when you ask it to do impressions, it comes up with these weird, dramatic caricatures. Unfortunately I think this is temporarily and AI could become the ultimate imitation machine.

In terms of "AI making you more you," my hope has always been to have something like this. Basically, if I have a million words

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For example, we are already seeing cases of liar’s dividend, where high profile individuals are able to explain away unfavorable evidence as AI-generated, shifting the burden of proof in costly and inefficient ways