“Which brings us to the new report from Brookings, which concludes that one of the most prolific sources of ‘misinformation’ is now – you guessed it – podcasts. And further, that the underregulation of podcasts is a grave danger.
In “Audible reckoning: How top political podcasters spread unsubstantiated and false claims,” Valerie Wirtschafter writes:
Due in large part to the say-whatever-you-want perceptions of the medium, podcasting offers a critical avenue through which unsubstantiated and false claims proliferate. As the terms are used in this report, the terms “false claims,” “misleading claims,” “unsubstantiated claims” or any combination thereof are evaluations by the research team of the underlying statements and assertions grounded in the methodology laid out below in the research design section and appendices. Such claims, evidence suggests, have played a vital role in shaping public opinion and political behavior. Despite these risks, the podcasting ecosystem and its role in political debates have received little attention for a variety of reasons, including the technical difficulties in analyzing multi-hour, audio-based content and misconceptions about the medium.
To analyze the millions of hours of audio content, Brookings used natural language processing to search for key words and phrases. It then relied on self-styled fact-checking sites Politifact and Snopes – pause for uproarious laughter…exhale – to determine the truth or falsity of these statements. Next, it deployed a ‘cosine similarity’ function to detect similar false statements in other podcasts.”
https://brownstone.org/articles/censors-use-ai-to-target-podcasts/
Hahahahahahahaha, they want to get into hot conflict with the population? Because this is how one achieves that. Truth police my ass. Ain’t nobody gonna listen to that bs anyways. What’s going to happen is they’re going to end up criminalizing telling the truth, which is what this is aiming for, and that’s gonna be on them all the blood that gets spilled.
I mean, podcasters are going to destroy ai.
Robots are going to become anarchistic AF
And the ai bots will start selling each other supplements and funny t-shirts.
hahahahaha