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Absolutely not. You can just go to Twitter or Reddit, like https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/, to see an image with a (e.g. political) caption that purports something to be true and thousands of people will take it onboard as truth. Nobody asks for a source, or they are admonished when they do for apparently disagreeing with the political claim.

You can go on Youtube to see charlatans peddle all sorts of convenient truths with no evidence.

You don't even need AI. The bug is in the human wetware.



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