Funny thing about "history". It can be very different, depending on who's telling it. Funny thing about nearing my 70s.. I've witnessed a lot of decades with my own two eyes. It's not so easy to be fooled about those! I wish we could retain history in a way that leaves no doubt what happened, who is to blame, who is to be praised, and who was honest about their story.
@homebird this is an interesting premise. In the past history was indeed often distorted because of who was recording it and their bias. These days the facts of history are being recorded on a level that they never have before. Access to these facts has also exponentially grown. The difficulty, as always, is untangling the facts from the narrative that accompanies them.
It would be truly wonderful to have a source of news that simply presented the facts.
@Booga Indeed. It's all in "how it's told". There are so many lies told, as you say, because of bias. If AI could be used for ONE GOOD THING, it might be in sifting truth from propaganda, but that won't happen. Who programs the AI? Even the history I have seen will be distorted after I am gone. And I won't be able to set it right any more. We need to maintain our right to question everything! Critical thinking should be a life-skill.
@homebird AI programmes itself persay but it does on a language model based off information already out there, which itself could be tainted, I believe.
People tend to gravitate towards sources that reinforce their own biases so even if there was a pure source of news most would ignore it, even if they new it was the only true source of the truth.
@Booga This is one problem with cultish behaviour. They believe what they believe based on from whom they get their "facts". So they can't allow themselves to think otherwise. Whatever lie they are told becomes their "truth". To dispel that lie becomes a matter of personal survival and trauma. And so history records the lie, because it's too hard to tell the truth.