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My one takeaway from this is that the future will be a scary place. This is impressive work, so please don't take that as a knock against this phenomenal work.
by MR4D 10y ago
My one takeaway from this is that the future will be a scary place. This is impressive work, so please don't take that as a knock against this phenomenal work.
This shows that computers soon will have the ability to fool our senses so well that we may not even believe reality when it is right in front of us. Some of the pictures, when I was just viewing them (before reading captions or titles) looked real. I was astounded to see that they were derivatives from paintings.
The implications are significant, not just in things like gaming, or finance, but especially in psychology, where the delicate aspects of the mind may be easily disrupted. I expect there will be numerous growth in neuroses over the coming decades. Technology will have surpassed natural evolution by such a margin, that it could be difficult to recover.
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- ooqr 10y agoWe'll probably learn how to exploit human psychology faster than we learn how to treat or understand it.
- theossuary 10y agoI'm pretty sure we already have.
- aisofteng 10y agoIndeed. See Cambridge Analytica: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica
- fudged71 10y agoI wonder if all generated images should somehow be watermarked so that they can be determined some day to be false. Otherwise we could have a lot of false images around the web used for confirmation bias.