What if the difference between statements that are simply speculative and statement that mislead are as obvious as, I don’t know, the difference between a photo and a hand-drawn sketch?
Given how long these have been pored over by existing hyperconnected nanomachine networks (i.e. brains) it may be that we'll mostly unearth qualities humans can already detect, even if only subconsciously.
When it comes to separating truth and lies, perhaps the real trick the computer will bring is removing context, e.g. scoring text without confirmation bias towards its conclusion.
LLMs seem to do more of what brains do unconsciously, rather than consciously. Which means brains may be better at rating e.g. trustworthiness of some text, but they don't surface specific ratings to the conscious level. Meanwhile, language models seem to be able to expose those features as knobs, allowing you to boost or attenuate them. So you get to drag the e.g. "excited" slider down to minimum, and get a text that may be easier to process at a conscious level. Having a slider to remove rhetoric from text would be really useful development.
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Given how long these have been pored over by existing hyperconnected nanomachine networks (i.e. brains) it may be that we'll mostly unearth qualities humans can already detect, even if only subconsciously.
When it comes to separating truth and lies, perhaps the real trick the computer will bring is removing context, e.g. scoring text without confirmation bias towards its conclusion.
LLMs seem to do more of what brains do unconsciously, rather than consciously. Which means brains may be better at rating e.g. trustworthiness of some text, but they don't surface specific ratings to the conscious level. Meanwhile, language models seem to be able to expose those features as knobs, allowing you to boost or attenuate them. So you get to drag the e.g. "excited" slider down to minimum, and get a text that may be easier to process at a conscious level. Having a slider to remove rhetoric from text would be really useful development.