Deception vs. Mistakes

The information age with copyright restrictions has set into motion a kind of deception arms race.

You can't sell someone else's song or book with a few key lines corrected or modified or expanded upon.

I think we over-value deception and lies and jokes to conceal deception and lies to a point where we do not recognize mistakes or question mistakes. As we accept lies for religious reasons, saving face, etc. We have sold short our ability to declare something as "complex"and honestly describe that complexity... much of this was done with climate change denial / selling of petrol.

Machine learning / large language models we measure based on how much we like the output. Without specific sources and citations, which copyright discourages (unintentionally), popularity is absolutely key to these language models. And pleasing bullshit is what humanity has normalized but now it can happen in unexpected ares that we normally would take more seriously.

Printed books could not be searched for words in 1950... index had to be built by hand. Misunderstandings and mistakes were not easily corrected.

Booby traps, land mines, anti-competition, salted Earth is a risk to all of us. Computer chips have too much complexity and the manufacturing has too many single points of failure / influence. Logic bombs we make from accidental mistakes being eclipsed by deliberate harm seeking is a rising risk. And depressing to the minds of society to constantly have to live in booby trap fear of imported food, electronics, etc.  We have seen some of this with dog food supplies killing pets from overseas food, etc.

Preaching to the choir on these issues isn't helping. Popularity of liars and deceivers as leaders in clergy business, politics, government is a real problem.  Two world wars doesn't seem enough to get the lesson, nor does September 11, 2001 and other terror attacks based around out-group hate in faith system clergy teaching.