I sat and read a piece today....there's this team of professors who got a grant by the DC folks.....to build something called a misinformation fact-checking 'tool'....named "Course Correct."
How much in this grant? $5.7-million.
Who would use it? Journalists....medical folks....election officials, and just about anyone against misinformation would just 'dial-in' or access this, and be given 'correct' information.
Where would the correct information come from? Well...the internet. But this would be 'sanctioned' information that the government or the machine would 'bless'.
After reading this....I was reminded of that scene in the 'Wizard of Oz'....where the curtain gets pulled from the 'all-mighty' part of the room, and its just a guy speaking.
Was the $5-million wasted? Yeah, I'd say so.
But I would imagine there are hundreds in DC who believe that a computer could speak raw truth, and you could trust the computer. It's just that raw plain truth....might be too much for some to handle.
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