I don't understand how the AI can invent incorrect information. The AI may not know what is accurate and possibly do something like copy a phony case out of a Law & Order script. The creation of complete fantasies without some basis should not be something the AI is programmed to do.
The same way idiots invent incorrect information. They make something up because they think it is right, then other idiots believe them and spread the incorrect information.
And this is how we have religion.
AIs are good at creating mis-information because they can calculate what best sounds right. Try zooming in on an AI enhanced graphic. What you will see is called a "hallucination". It filled in details with what statistically looks right, even though it had no freaking idea what was there.
At the moment I'm working with a database that is getting filled in with data collected from the web using nothing more than Google (R)(TM) searches. (company information like names and addressed). The data that is out there is horrible as it is. Most of what is out there is on sites who's only real purpose is to display advertising.
Why would a site, who's entire purpose is to advertise, NOT want to make stuff up? Push a button on an "AI", and suddenly there are millions more pages and even hundreds or thousands more sites dishing out your advertising. Idiots searching won't know any better. I do fully expect the Internet to be filled with AI produced gibberish in a few more year. The human created gibberish for the same purpose is bad enough already.
It does boggle my mind, that unlike the bored research student, AI's are given such leniency to make stuff up without providing sources.
Then, what ARE its sources? Facebook? X-Twitter? Crap spewed out by other "AI" gibberish producing programs? Garbage in, garbage out.
They clearly can not evaluate their sources for accuracy. Even reading a fairly well fact-check 1980s periodical, I may come across some piece of information that I pick up on as probably being wrong.
Back to what I was talking about earlier - over the years, I have gone to a lot of effort to explore obscure software, hardware, and such, and then write up my experiences. I would hope that these small experiences might somehow help someone or make the world slightly better somehow.
I guess no one wants that sort of thing any more. It doesn't sell enough advertising.
If this is the future, I hate to think how it will expand in to everything else. When every single product is designed by an AI, without any human creativity or thought. Imagine shelves filled with a surreal distorted mish-mash of products. Is this a glitzy beauty product, a food, or a mind-numbing corporate mainframe product? Oh, it's all three.
But each product has been designed using unbelievably huge amounts of information collected from everyone on the planet. From purchasing history, search history, where you go, what you do, every communication to others, all the way down to every single eye-movement.
This is the scary part, because THIS is where the AI of today can actually succeed. Because they can pull from such huge giga-sets of data, they can find "optimal" solutions that have not already been thought of. Usually because those pesky ethics, common sense, or even reality were in the way.
Hmmm, there is a lot of sediment shaped sediment in this cake.