• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    16 hours ago

    Yes and no

    I fully agree we need to have independent journalists. People won’t pay for news anymore so governments should fund independent journalists through some sort of independent foundation. International foundation, preferably.

    But beyond that, it matters little if we still have Alex Jones who somehow has actual listeners, or Fox news which is just a 24/7 bullshit pump with a large userbase.

    We need to stop people, organizations, and companies from being able to lie to large groups. You lie? The lie gets immediately marked as being a lie. Not “this is not entirely true”, no, “this is a lie”. Repeat offenders should be fined depending on their worth. You are worth a billion dollars? Get a 100 million dollar fine. Still don’t listen? Jail time, doesn’t matter who you are.

    Its either that or I see this world dead within the decade. With AI pictures and videos getting better every day, with AI becoming better at posting, how long do you think we have until we have a dead Internet with only AI posting lies and all extremist humans ready to commit mass murder because the AI bots have been telling them that the Jewish space lasers will make your frog children gay or something?

    The Internet gave a bullhorn to idiots and cheaters and though I was one of the earlier users, loving it’s thinking it would rescue the world, now I’m of the opinion that it will doom us all