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===Infodemic===
===Infodemic===
The new generations of Machine Learning in form of GPT made it possible to create AI-like programs that were able to generate new texts, images, 3D content, sounds and human speech based on vast training data and simple text inputs, the so-called prompts.
Starting with the new generations of Machine Learning in form of GPT made it possible to create AI-like programs that were able to generate new texts, images, 3D content, sounds and human speech based on vast training data and simple text inputs, the so-called prompts.


It marked the beginning of the '''information crisis'''. [And later fully escalated with the rise of rogue memehunters.]
It marked the beginning of the '''information crisis'''. [And later fully escalated with the rise of rogue memehunters.]
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: "Infodemic. Originally this term was used to describe the information flood mixed with fake news in context of a pandemic.<!--Corona pandemic--> The increasing availability of knowledge and instruments boosted fake news and disinformation campaigns in non-pandemic times so that the term infodemic shifted towards a much more literal meaning - disinformation itself becoming pandemic. The WCG tried to limit future chaos by establishing technological countermeasures. At the same time those new and expensive instruments pushed a development towards more autocratic and totalitarian [regional] systems as the government and "approved media" had basically a monopoly on information."
: "Infodemic. Originally this term was used to describe the information flood mixed with fake news in context of a pandemic.<!--Corona pandemic--> The increasing availability of knowledge and instruments boosted fake news and disinformation campaigns in non-pandemic times so that the term infodemic shifted towards a much more literal meaning - disinformation itself becoming pandemic. The WCG tried to limit future chaos by establishing technological countermeasures. At the same time those new and expensive instruments pushed a development towards more autocratic and totalitarian [regional] systems as the government and "approved media" had basically a monopoly on information."
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