I point at AI not because it's new, but because it exponentially increases the power of misinformation. Creating misinformation by hand is limited in speed and reach. Creating misinformation by automated means (of which AI is the most powerful) is essentially unlimited.
@tschenkel @altruios @ct_bergstrom
this, this is the thing. It tilts the field even further, makes all the "old" problems worse, and the various ways in which they're made worse are cumulative.
The lie has not only gone around the world, before truth managed to put on it's shoes, it went a dozen times and spawned two generations of offspring, all of them avid travelers.