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> This technology will kill all digital information exchange. ....actually, you know what? I think that might be the best possible case scenario for humanity a
by AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
> This technology will kill all digital information exchange.
....actually, you know what? I think that might be the best possible case scenario for humanity as a whole.
- wankle 4y agoBreaking news, ChatGPT sends humanity back to the stone age. News broken by the town crier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_crier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_crier
- smt88 4y agoSo you don't want to be able to call your relatives with certainty? You don't want to read what's going on that isn't right in front of your face? Even local news would become unreliable.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y agoWhat makes you so sure it is reliable now? Or in the past for that matter? The same dynamics of trust existed before as exist now, it's just that we have a lot more sources than we used to.
- smt88 4y ago> What makes you so sure it is reliable now? The technology to fake it isn't in widespread use. > Or in the past for that matter? The technology to fake it didn't exist. > The same dynamics of trust existed before as exist now No they didn't.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y agoThere's a reason the words "post-truth era" have been thrown around a lot in the past decade or so you know. It isn't like we suddenly developed the ability to lie, have blind spots, biases, and inhabit echo chambers, we only developed the technology that made it obvious that we were doing that all the time. News in the past wasn't actually more trustworthy, it just felt that way because we had far fewer sources of it. All that changes with AI here is volume.