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> When Jobs held up the first smartphone and we all started cheering and fantasizing, did any of us think it would lead to this?

Jobs didn’t hold up the first smartphone and smartphone proliferation has little to do with the AI research that led to deepfakes.

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I was more trying to point out that what we might hope comes out of new technology in the future may not necessarily come true, or the benefits might come with as-yet-unknown downsides that only become visible by the technology being proliferated extensively (and irreversibly).

You keep saying “we” and “us”. Who the fuck are you talking about? Speak for yourself.

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