> a reputable source
News reporters and editors have their biases. Book authors have their biases. Scientists and research papers have their biases. Search engines have their biases. Google too.
All human-created systems have biases shaped by the environments, social norms, education, traditions, etc. of their creators and managers.
So, the concepts of "objective truth" and "reputable" need to be analyzed more critically.
They seem to be labels given to sources we have learned to trust by habit. Some people trust newspapers over TV. Some people trust some newspapers over other newspapers. All of it often on emotional grounds of agreeability with our own biases. Then we seem to post-rationalize this emotion of agreeability using terms like "objective truth" and "reputable".
Is Google search engine that leads to NY Times or Fox News or Wikipedia and makes us manually choose sources as per our biases "better" than Google's Gemini engine that summarizes content from all the above sources and gives an average answer? (Note: "average answer" as of current versions; in future, its training too may be explicitly biased, like Grok and DeepSeek did).
Perhaps we can start using terms like "human sources of information" versus "AI sources of information" and get rid of the contentious terms.
Then critically analyze whether one set of sources is better than the other, or they complement each other.
News reporters and editors have their biases. Book authors have their biases. Scientists and research papers have their biases. Search engines have their biases. Google too.
All human-created systems have biases shaped by the environments, social norms, education, traditions, etc. of their creators and managers.
So, the concepts of "objective truth" and "reputable" need to be analyzed more critically.
They seem to be labels given to sources we have learned to trust by habit. Some people trust newspapers over TV. Some people trust some newspapers over other newspapers. All of it often on emotional grounds of agreeability with our own biases. Then we seem to post-rationalize this emotion of agreeability using terms like "objective truth" and "reputable".
Is Google search engine that leads to NY Times or Fox News or Wikipedia and makes us manually choose sources as per our biases "better" than Google's Gemini engine that summarizes content from all the above sources and gives an average answer? (Note: "average answer" as of current versions; in future, its training too may be explicitly biased, like Grok and DeepSeek did).
Perhaps we can start using terms like "human sources of information" versus "AI sources of information" and get rid of the contentious terms.
Then critically analyze whether one set of sources is better than the other, or they complement each other.