People share misinformation because of social media’s incentives(niemanlab.org)

19 pointsby hhs3 lata temu4 comments

People share misinformation because of social media’s incentives

https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/08/people-share-misinformation-because-of-social-medias-incentives-but-those-can-be-changed/

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richard_rainbow3 lata temu

Misinformation is usually anything of personal account or witness because experts and stories are what people used to believe as truth. But not many do any more.

dadjoker3 lata temu

And as always, the definition of "misinformation" - many times known as "information I don't like" - is left up to the authors.

gmerc3 lata temu

As always, hallucinations seem to be as much in the realm of humans than AI, but even chatgpt wouldn’t have made up something like this because the definition is right in the article.

hhs3 lata temu

In the paper, the authors address issues related to the definition of "misinformation".