The social damage caused by low cost content generation that’s hard to distinguish from human authorship is astronomical. You don’t need to entertain the more ridiculous doomsday scenarios to wish that this technology had never been created.
I've stopped scrolling social media and tired of seeing fake landscapes, fake foods, and fake cities that don't exist.
Meanwhile, the Morlocks will stay grounded and develop novel tastes.
I shouldn't have targeted the developing world as much as the incentives made by social media platforms needing to get growth in other ways than usercount.
I am having so much trouble relating to and even understanding what the anti-AI crowd's position is. It looks like a caricature to me.
I feel like that is a good example. Now multiply that by hundreds of millions of AI generated propaganda images across the world.
And that’s even without touching the effect of fake videos on democracy or Elons pedo-bot that generates CSAM on demand of specific people…
I feel like this is the worst example, actually, because here it’s 100% clear to anyone that it’s AI-generated content. The danger is more about AI-generated fake images/videos disguised as real content.
Yes, but two things were lost:
1) the need for skill or an accomplice. He _couldn’t_ tweet that image in 2016, not without first asking someone to photoshop it. And that need to engage in human to human communication is something truly fundamental that was changed and lost.
2) Any ambiguity or misunderstanding. Yes bad textual tweets exist for a long time in politics. But there IS something about images that is more powerful than text. The text „I’m Jesus Christ and god sent me to heal the sick“ would probably make the news, but a lot of people would go: „is he quoting the bible? What’s going on?“, not so much with Jesus Picture.
Does that say anything about AI or everything about Donald Trump?
That it can depict Trump as Jesus? You don’t need AI for that.
You can and do have full conversations with bots and not know. I want to interact with humans not LLMs.
There’s no way to combat it. An army of bots can post a specific rhetoric and it can and does sway people’s opinions.
The new version of Digg was shut down because they couldn’t find a way to combat AI. They were at least trying to, other platforms are just eating it up because “user activity” is a win for them.
AI is accelerating but also perhaps backfilling in what was already being lost.
The solution to the cheating is, as has always been, to have tests conducted in person, on paper without digital technology, under strict supervision.
Is it really that hard to understand?
i'm no fan of the politician, but scams like this one are increasing at a significant rate and are a lot harder for non-technically minded people to spot, think your grandmother etc
also recently https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7pl7zj024o
also: grok CSAM; plundering massive swathes of copyrighted material / intellectual property; making electricity more expensive for regular folks; increasing global carbon footprint building massive data centres; destroying a whole swathe of entry level jobs for recent grads (not just software junior roles); circular funding deals to keep the bubble (scam) alive, while positioning the large companies as necessary for govt. work so when the bubble bursts tax payers will have to bail them out; people with mental health issues being left to run riot with the tool; suicides; the degradation of human knowledge workers using their knowledge (the muscle atrophies when you don't use it cos "ai said yes") ...
I want to see a Star Trek economy/society in my lifetime. I only life once.
Btw. AI/LLM/Machine learning is the gateway technology for robotics, this will affect even more.
But lets be honest, i don't know that, you don't either. But if a critical mass is reached, faster, we might need to actually solve this problem instead of migrating to a very dystopian future.
Stoping is not an option i think. Anthropic vs. OpenAI vs. Google <<< they ahve so much money and so much to loose. And then we have USA vs. China.
It was (aside from first contact, and the subsequent development of the replicator which enabled the post scarcity economy). The federation was built from the war, not after it.
Suffering is what made the utopia possible, and if ever get to the point of nearing a post scarcity economy, we are likely to experience the same. Progress is built on catastrophe. Whether or not you call it progress depends on if you are born later after the catastrophe and can look back and call it progress, or if you lived through the suffering without seeing the end result.
While Star Trek is fiction, it's probably a good idea to understand the history of how the ST utopia came about, at the cost of a third of the worlds population and decades of suffering.
Sure but when serial grifter Sam Altman said it was "too dangerous" what he meant was that he wanted regulators to create him an artificial competitive moat so Anthropic et al couldn't catch up.
Serial grifter Sam Altman does not care about anything but making money, and certainly doesn't care about ethics. That's why serial grifter Sam Altman's company trained its models on pirated textbooks and copyrighted works without paying. Rules for thee but not for me.
Serial grifter Sam Altman doesn't care if society unravels because he is so rich that laws and consequences do not apply to him.