A few days ago, the current SEC chairman made news spread on the web via an AI platform. Gary Gensler He will resign after an internal investigation.
In fact, there was only one source for this news, and it wasn’t even a reliable source on the subject. However, given the growing hatred of Gensler in the cryptocurrency industry, the news was widely reported and even picked up as truth by some news outlets.
Rather, as expected from the beginning, it was fake news and a FOX Business Network (FBN) correspondent Charles Gasparino I flatly deny it.
AI Generated News on SEC Chairman Gary Gensler
Analyzing the suspect’s text after its release, Zero GPTthat is, using an AI-generated text detector, we found that 96.8% of that text was generated by an artificial intelligence tool.
The problem is that various AI tools that generate text, such as the famous ChatGPT, cannot verify the authenticity of the source.
So when we find information online from a source we believe to be reliable, we believe it to be true.
In fact, they do not verify sources and, more importantly, do not ask for confirmation like a good journalist. In this case, there was no confirmation at all, so it is quite possible that there was. fake news.
If indeed Gensler had resigned, the SEC would have made it public. Because no government agency can hide the resignation of its chairman if it wants to avoid serious repercussions from the government itself.
Therefore, without official confirmation, the news could not be considered true.
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In fact, some of the newspapers reporting the alleged news emphasized that it was silly and not confirmed news. Again, the basic mistake is Couldn’t really verify what the original source was.
In fact, the original source was artificial intelligence-based text generation software, not factual people as written in the original news article.
So it wasn’t really even a rumor, it was clearly fake news.
However, it is unclear from which source the AI software that generated it came from, but it is clearly improperly programmed as it cannot only come from trusted sources.
Who fabricated the news?
Now the real question would be who fabricated this fake news.
So while this is certainly completely hoaxed news, AI software did not invent it. This person probably just wrote the body of the article without citing sources. no authority.
It’s also possible that the original invention was probably done by a satirist and the AI software was unable to distinguish between satire and truth.
It’s also worth noting that experienced journalists did not believe this allegation. That’s precisely because it was only to confirm that there was no corroboration at all with minimal verification.
Artificial intelligence software and only the inexperienced believed it. I don’t know how to properly validate To understand if a news article is from a reliable source.
Looking Back at the AI Hoax Against Gary Gensler (SEC): The Fundamental Problem
A second question that comes to mind is whether artificial intelligence-generated fake news can be a problem.
For non-professionals, it certainly is, as most people can’t check for themselves if a news story has been confirmed.
In contrast, for experienced journalists, who have long been accustomed to recognizing fabricated news from confirmed and verified news, it is not a problem for now.
Unfortunately, the quality of journalism today is often poor, with incompetent people in the field spreading news without being able to verify its truth. The only way to avoid being fooled by AI is to always trust it Sources Considered ReliableIf the credibility is from a source you are unsure of, ignore everything else.
