You can use source criticism for everything: videos, AI-slop, newspaper articles, audio, images and so forth, despite of the fact that the method was developed more than a century ago, where books and newspaper were still the state of the art “information technology”. Well, that might be difficult in the case of AI-generated influencers, but in the case of war-reports or other fake news, it is still possible to resort to other sources and the more traditional media sources to fact-check information. Even source criticism might reach its limit in a situation where the “What do other sources say”-question becomes nearly impossible to investigate for “normal” people, simply because we might end up in situations, where other AI-generated content is flooding platforms to a degree that gives users the impression that other sources are corroborating AI-generated content as facts.
Author: Hinnerk Frech
Published at: 2025-11-10 21:37:00
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