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You have hit the nail on the head!! AI is uncontrolled at this point, and sometimes it is difficult to recognize when it is being used. From what I have observed so far, there are many AI 'creators' who are not too good at their AI products making spotting it easy. As you have noted, understanding what is 'real' and what is 'AI real' requires a lot of effort. Who to trust and who to not trust for me is my current problem because of the time and effort it takes to verify what I see, hear and read online.

My biggest concern is that our new Hitler will have truth eliminated in favor of what he thinks people will believe because he says it is true and more importantly to him what makes him look good. He is so insecure about himself he does what is the classic thing: yell at anyone who challenges him and does his best to destroy whoever or whatever dared to challenge the veracity of his comments.

There are people out there who see though this shit and hopefully the number of them will continue to grow fast enough to prevent us becoming 1984 for real.

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I agree wholeheartedly and hope start paying more attention to the stench cloud around the circus barker. My thought is the DOGE vs. MAGA "civil war" still hasn't hit its groove, but might be the straw that finally breaks it through to far too many that billionaires--and reality tv businessmen and politicians--don't give af anyone but themselves. Ego and hubris and ignorance will--fingers crossed for us and middle finger extended at them--hopefully spell their fall from grace. Not that any of them are graceful...if you know what I mean. :-p https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT-xAGrNbrM

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So, Clint, what you want is good ol' academic rigor. Tedious, accountable, seeking for truth, peer reviewed, time-consuming academic pursuit which is often boring, and teaches students to martial their minds to engage in critical thinking. How very anti-Foxnoise that is! And, oh boy, we need more of it in our nation. Pax vobiscum.

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I know…I’m just being a ridiculous libtard, right? Thinking facts and truth matter in our upside-down-and-all-around world. How silly of me. :-)

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I became a fan of epistemology, theory of knowledge, how we know what we know (and how do the ones that try to inform us know what they claim to know) almost 50 years ago. I treat all information with scepticism, may be true but mey be false. Is it important for me to believe it, to know it? If it isn't important then I don't care whether it is true or not.

I then thinik about the possible motives of the agent telling me something. Do I trust or can I think of reasons for the agent to mislead me, manipulate me? I might then turn to an agent who has opposing opinions, motives to find out what they say or claim to believe. The truth may lie closer to one than the other or may not tally with either. It may simply be somewhere in between. I trust myself, value my intuition, my intelligence, my scepticism. Often I can't decide so I keep my mind firmly open.

I am aware of clickbait, of AI fakery. The grounds for believing the information given to me is much less secure than it was 50 years ago.

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I had forgotten about the existence of epistemology, so thank you for jogging my memory. Critical thinking is critical, especially these days. Clickbait is just the tip of the iceberg. What’s underwater is what will truly sink all our Titanics if we aren’t careful. Cheers, Ray.

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Alert, wise, cautious but not paranoid.

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I am in love with Missy Information, even though her namesake is the prime factor, or one of them anyway, in the dumbing down of Americans, especially MAGA types. I do have one small suggestion. Change the sash to read "disinformation" as that is far worse and all too common, right Fox News? We really need Missy's calming down effect when confronted with that crap, which is not only disgusting, but very dangerous as well.

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Glad you like her. She might become a "guest columnist" when I, Clint, get to mad to cuss and discuss some of the bs that's about to be trickling down. Fun!

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She's got some great jewels, for sure...!

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Missy likes her bling and things. :-p

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Oh Clint how I so agree on most of your post and you know my stance on AI shenanigans and click bait headlines. However I'm reminded of that old fable of cries/shouts Wolf too often then when the wolf is really there who listens/cares/actions till it's too late. Philosophy lesson over, leave a tip in the jar on your way out. Cheers DougT 🇫🇴 (the philosopher)

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But I don’t know your Ko-Li username! :-)

Cheers and thanks for sharing and caring, dear Doug. 🍻

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🤓

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Whatever it takes to deal with the frustration! I like your creation, hope (s)he shows up often. I'm an avid researcher of news, and it's doggoned difficult to verify stuff. Even people who appear to have facts in hand (and there are many) often don't cite their sources so you're left wondering how the "f" they know what they're saying. On the right and the left and altogether outside that paradigm.

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Not sure when/if Missy will show up again. Bitch is flakey and unreliable from what I can tell. Also, even fake face paint is harder to create than I thought. Though it did make me laugh.

Curious if you’ve heard of or tried Ground News (https://ground.news/). I’m tempted to try it out…helps see where the bias is coming from and who owns the publications. Too much self-interest in media. I personally prefer independent journalism, though that means a whole lot of things now. Some consider me a journalist. Not me…I’m just a creative dude who makes videos and writes a newsletter.

Cheers, Clarke!

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