Today I had a funny but sad interaction with a friend about TikTok and fake news, and how it affects the behavior of people. I was chatting with her when she asked me if I was ready? Ready for what? she said, "For the global shutdown, is all over the news." I asked her, which news was that, she sent me a TikTok link. I couldn't believe she could fall for that. I even thought she was playing with me and telling me this ironically.
So I decided, to ask her, what did Gemini said about it? She then went on about full conspiracy theory about the elites didn't want us to know about this shutdown and that presidents all over the world are saying this, and her country in Colombia there were recordings about the president warning the population and such and such.
TBH, I actually heard about this global shutdown, but even the guy that made that video said that it was all rumors and then later said it was a bad timing for some exercises in the US for any emergency. The AI seemed to agree with me and how this event spur a rumor on platforms like TikTok about a global shutdown. Then it went o explaining how is that virtually impossible given the decentralized nature of the global energy grid.
I went on to explained to her how AI works and how even if she thinks that the AI is 'handled' by the elites, the responses are based on content that someone else did. So you can go to the source material and decide if its convincing enough. For the global shutdown I showed her the complete video from where the rumor was clarified and how these fake news were spotted on TikTok.
What I found a bit sad, is how non techie people really believe TikTok which anyone can post anything, to an AI that have some sort of 'logic' to give you reasonable answer. I hope these people can jump faster into AI and start really questioning their believes and communication channels as there is so much fake news out there that it would be hard to go about your day being paranoid and scared, not to mention scammed.
Have you faced this in your family or friend groups? Perhaps coworkers? Let's talk about it.
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