About whether Facebook and Google can judge truth and trustworthiness automatically instead of relying on authority.
Has this happened?
Yes 50 (37%)Not sure 56 (41%)No 29 (21%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About whether Facebook and Google can judge truth and trustworthiness automatically instead of relying on authority.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Google and Facebook want to have their cake and eat it too: billions of users without having millions of customer service workers.
What they're trying to accomplish, to my mind at least, would require the invention of general AI. Automatic content moderation sounds very close to a Turing test to me.