Posted on 11/25/2020 3:28:32 PM PST by ransomnote
The audio on the otherwise shaky body camera footage is unusually clear. As police officers search a handcuffed man who moments before had fired a shot inside a pizza parlor, an officer asks him why he was there. The man says to investigate a pedophile ring. Incredulous, the officer asks again. Another officer chimes in, “Pizzagate. He’s talking about Pizzagate.”
In that brief, chilling interaction in 2016, it becomes clear that conspiracy theories, long relegated to the fringes of society, had moved into the real world in a very dangerous way.
Conspiracy theories, which have the potential to cause significant harm, have found a welcome home on social media, where forums free from moderation allow like-minded individuals to converse. There they can develop their theories and propose actions to counteract the threats they “uncover.”
But how can you tell if an emerging narrative on social media is an unfounded conspiracy theory? It turns out that it’s possible to distinguish between conspiracy theories and true conspiracies by using machine learning tools to graph the elements and connections of a narrative. These tools could form the basis of an early warning system to alert authorities to online narratives that pose a threat in the real world.
The culture analytics group at the University of California, which I and Vwani Roychowdhury lead, has developed an automated approach to determining when conversations on social media reflect the telltale signs of conspiracy theorizing. We have applied these methods successfully to the study of Pizzagate, the COVID-19 pandemic and anti-vaccination movements. We’re currently using these methods to study QAnon.
While the popular image of the conspiracy theorist is of a lone wolf piecing together puzzling connections with photographs and red string, that image no longer applies in the age of social media. Conspiracy theorizing has moved online and is now the end-product of a collective storytelling. The participants work out the parameters of a narrative framework: the people, places and things of a story and their relationships.
The online nature of conspiracy theorizing provides an opportunity for researchers to trace the development of these theories from their origins as a series of often disjointed rumors and story pieces to a comprehensive narrative. For our work, Pizzagate presented the perfect subject.
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It's not like the fed a purely objective set of rules into the AI.
ALL YOUR THEORIES ARE BELONG TO US!
Libs get to fly if they don't believe in gravity......
Sounds like he invented a Dominion Machine to investigate conspiracy theories.
So, they found ONE instance of a man overreacting to the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory, but they will ignore the fact that the entire news media was taken in by the Russia collusion conspiracy theory, and that a special counsel was brought in to waste millions investigating it, and that the whole country was distracted by it for two years. THAT doesn’t count as a conspiracy theory in their eyes.
Artificial Stupidity
Artificial intelligence is always inferior to the intelligence of human beings.
Just wondering if they looked into the origins of the motivation behind the Scalise shooter? Didn’t think so.
Apply the logic of the author to those who believed (and still believe) the Russian collusion delusion. 40 million dollars later with the full force of the government they found no evidence, yet many still believe it to be true.
Ironic.
Briefly, anyway.
/splat
You can't ask for a clearer example of someone who is awake (or at least aware) and someone who is asleep.
You mean like the Russian collusion conspiracy theory?
“...they will ignore the fact that the entire news media was taken in by the Russia collusion conspiracy theory,”
They were not “taken in.” They knew they were lying for the greater good.
Agreed.
Maybe Google A.I.?? /s
Russia Russia Russia Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine Covid Covid Covid
Trust but verify
All investigations of conspiracies/crimes begin with a theory...
Not sure when it started, but demonizing “conspiracy theories” is just another way for Liberals and Progs to divert attention away from their illegal acts.
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If MSM calls it debunked, without evidence, or baseless, it is true.
Exactly. It is "artificial" to consider it an "intelligence".
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