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Ok, now imaging a paperless future, with plenty of surveillance devices and imaging who much can count computing powers to create fake evidence of pretty anythi
by xte 8y ago
Ok, now imaging a paperless future, with plenty of surveillance devices and imaging who much can count computing powers to create fake evidence of pretty anything for tons of different purpose including, but not limited to:
- orient people behavior with nearly unverifiable and absolutely plausible news;
- do illegal activities as a large powerful corporation and plausible denying anything with forged proofs no one can really verify (think about what happen inside megafactories);
- false accuse with skyrocketing high effectiveness anyone that disturb big&powerful;
- essentially centralize even more actual society because yes, we automate, but we do not automate simply with open tech in a free market on n-th competing players and open core knowledge publicly granted by public universities but with VERY few super-giant transnational player with universities reduced at Ford-model workers "production factories".
Imaging how easy we can invent a kind of "widespread illness" just to sell a dummy medicine that does nothing but cost big money so give big money to it's vendor. Imaging how easy we can depict a country, or even a small area of a nation as awful just to move people around. All things can be verified, in theory, but if all tools are made by few big&powerful and are closed black boxes our effective "verification power" it became REALLY limited and so it became our ability to communicate since being everywhere more and more "remote workers" with less physical social contacts and no really free means of communication... We do not even need censorship; it suffice suffocating unwanted news under a stream of other news and silently delete them after a certain amount of time. It's super-easy spread FUD against any unwanted news etc.
Nothing new under the sun of course, only at an unprecedented level with too few that can do too much, without the need of a certain support chain like ancient dictators still need.
- mkl 8y agoI think you probably mean "imagine" rather than "imaging". We are talking about fake images and the imaging of imaginary people, so your comment is a bit confusing.
- xte 8y agoMy English is really poor. The meaning of my comment is essentially: try to image how easy will became forging false proofs for subjects with enough computational resources and skill. Add to the scenario the actual trend toward few and few subjects with knowledge and infrastructure that act as a "platform of our society"... Hope it's more clear now.