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The difference between this and a troll farm is like the difference between machine guns and lines of soldiers manually loading and firing muskets. Yes both can
by api 4y ago
The difference between this and a troll farm is like the difference between machine guns and lines of soldiers manually loading and firing muskets. Yes both can be used to gun down a lot of people, but machine guns are much faster and cheaper. Mechanized warfare is coming to propaganda and con artistry.
I'm not necessarily arguing for intervention to stop this release or something like that. The cat is out of the bag. There's no stopping it. This is going to happen, so get ready for it.
Oh, and throw in deepfakes. You'll have automatic con artistry at scale that can incorporate personalized fake audio and video on demand depicting any supporting detail it needs. It'll be like assigning each person a con artist who's also supported by a staff of content producers.
- mgraczyk 4y agoI guess, but on the flip side there are potentially transformative positive applications that we already know about and have yet to discover. Fundamentally some people are more optimistic and risk-loving when it comes to new technology. I believe the "good" will overwhelmingly outweigh the "bad" that you're pointing out. I think it mostly comes down to personality.
- api 4y agoI can think of some positive applications. The thing that makes me cynical here is that all the evil applications seem like they're going to be far more profitable in terms of either money or power. This would be a continuation of what's happened to the Internet in the last 10-15 years. The Internet is amazing and has tons of incredibly positive uses but all the money is in mass surveillance, addictive "engagement maximizing" stuff, and gambling and scams.