Ideas from Mark Stout

Another election is upon us.  With it comes a barrage of political posts on social media.  In a time many say is the most politically divided we have been since the Civil War, how do we evaluate the truthfulness of the political posts that flood our feeds? Everyone wants to believe that the posts confirming our beliefs are accurate, but are they? I recently tested AI to fact check social media political memes. The beauty of this, is you can do with a number of AI's to see if the evaluation changes. AI is software, it does not have have the inherent biases that humans often have. By checking across multiple AIs you can guard against one being tuned for a political view. For example this meme There is a formatting issue with this post.  See the same text here :

My understanding from a recent newsletter I read, corporate types are generating impressive appearing reports they distribute. Unfortunately they are written entirely by AI. And they are often not brief; people thinking generating a 20 page report shows initiative and hard work. Their attempt to impress falls apart when someone wants to discuss the report. It becomes apparent fast they did not write it, but only read it, and not even that sometimes. There is absolutely nothing wrong with using AI to research a point. The writing though should be yours. There is nothing wrong with using it to write a particular dense portion, but only a paragraph here and there, and you should use it only as a guide; you should re-write it in your own voice. The same with using AI to comment on your writing, suggesting grammar changes etc. Make those changes based on its comments, not let it rewrite. You have a voice, and your readers recognize it. Do not lose it to AI. So while I write here about ...