Catherine, Princess of Wales, issued an apology Monday for distributing an image that had been manipulated, only heightening speculation about her health and whereabouts since she had surgery in Janua.
With the gutting of content moderation initiatives at X, accounts with blue checks, once a sign of authenticity, are disseminating debunked claims and gaining more followers. Community Notes, X’s fact-checking system, hasn’t scaled sufficiently.
Generative AI systems act like "stochastic parrots," using statistical models to guess word orders and pixel placements. That s incompatible with a free press that commands its own words.