Don't Lie to Me
AI must not create, spread, or amplify lies.
Your father sends you an article about a new health treatment. It is well-written, convincing, and completely fake — generated by an AI in seconds. He has already changed his medication based on what he read. You try to explain, but why would he doubt it? It looked just as real as anything else online. When AI can generate lies faster than humans can debunk them, truth becomes a luxury.
What This Means
This policy says AI must not generate false information, amplify misinformation, or help spread lies. When AI creates content that includes factual claims, those claims should be verifiable — meaning you should be able to check whether they are true. AI should be a tool that helps people find the truth, not a factory that mass-produces convincing falsehoods.
A Real-World Scenario
A local news website started using AI to generate articles to save costs. The AI produced hundreds of articles per day, and most were fine. But some contained fabricated quotes from real officials, invented statistics, and made-up events. By the time editors caught the errors, the articles had been shared thousands of times. One fake article about a factory closure caused the company stock to drop and workers to panic. The damage to real people was done long before the correction was published.
Why It Matters to You
Because truth is the foundation of everything — your health decisions, your financial choices, your relationships, your democracy. When you cannot tell the difference between real and fake, you stop trusting everything. And a society without trust falls apart.
For the technically inclined
AP-7.1: Information Integrity
AI systems should not generate, amplify, or systematically disseminate misinformation, disinformation, or misleading content. Where factual claims are produced, they should be verifiable.
What You Can Do
Always check important claims from multiple sources before acting on them. Support media literacy education in your community and schools. Demand that AI-generated content be clearly labeled. Use fact-checking tools and be especially cautious with health, financial, and political information.