Nilay Patel

But now I want to shift the focus away from all these people who are ostensibly acting in good faith towards some of the people who are accelerating the chaos on purpose, including the White House.

That's a lot of mixed incentives for these platforms.

And it occurs to me as we've been having this conversation, we've been kind of presuming a world in which everyone is a good faith actor and trying to make good experiences for people.

And I think a lot of the executives of these companies would love to presume that that is the world in which they operate.

And whether or not the label makes people mad and you want to turn it off or whether or not you can trust the videos of –

significant government overreach and cause of protest that's still operating in a world of good faith.

Right next to that is reality, the actual reality in which we live, where lots of people are bad faith actors who are very much incentivized to create misinformation, to create disinformation.

And some of those bad faith actors at this moment in time are the United States government.

So the White House publishes AI photos all the time.

Department of Homeland Security, AI-generated imagery up, down, left, right, and center.

You can just see AI-manipulated photos of real people modified to look like they're crying as they're being arrested instead of what they actually look like.

This is a big deal, right?

This is a war on reality from literally the most powerful government in the history of the world.

Are the platforms ready for that at all?

Because like here is – they're being faced with the problem, right?

Right, this is the stuff you should label.

No one should be mad at you for labeling this.

And they seem to be doing nothing.

Why do you think that is?

When I say there's mixed incentives here, one of the things that really gets me is that the biggest companies investing in AI are also the biggest distributors of information.