AI Information Pollution

AI information pollution is the episode’s extension of Sagan-style skepticism into a world where synthetic text, images, audio, and video lower the cost of persuasive false evidence. 185.魔鬼出没的世界：关于阴谋论、UFO与科学精神 argues that older UFO and pseudoscience mechanisms may become newly powerful when fabrication is cheaper and media attention is shorter.

The concept connects this book episode to the wiki’s broader AI literacy branch. The same public that depends on technical systems also needs Scientific Skepticism, source checking, and Evidence Over Testimony to avoid treating plausible media as proof.

Key Claims

• AI does not invent credulity; it scales old weaknesses in evidence evaluation.
• Synthetic evidence makes independent confirmation more important, not less.
• Sagan’s warning about technologically complex societies becomes sharper when technical fakery is ordinary.

Connections

• Scientific Skepticism and Evidence Over Testimony - verification posture needed under synthetic media.
• Science Communication Disadvantage - correction is harder when false media is vivid and abundant.
• AI Literacy Against Worship - adjacent AI-era literacy concern already in the wiki.
• Pseudoscience Fraud Vulnerability - human vulnerabilities that AI-amplified persuasion can exploit.