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Why is it so terrible in particular? Regarding information safety on the Internet, I think the cat is long out of the bag now. Forget AI, information is alread

Why is it so terrible in particular? Regarding information safety on the Internet, I think the cat is long out of the bag now. Forget AI, information is already weaponized at scale. I mean in the way like in this Wiki collection [0]. AI is, while probably powerful, just another tool in this toolbox. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_web_brigades#Opinion-influencing_operations_in_other_countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_web_brigades#Opinion-i...

im3w1l 3y ago
To preface it's a strong gut feeling that I don't know where exactly it is coming from. So I'm trying to understand it myself. I think the reason I feel so opposed to it is because human connection is one of the most beautiful things. Forming friendships. And heaven banning counter-acts that and counterfeits that. If you find out your friends were fake, in a very literal sense, enough times you may stop trying to find friends. You may fall into a learned helplessness and isolation, where you must scream but there is no real to hear. Only fake phantoms feigning sympathy, gone tomorrow and replaced with new faces.
- npteljes 3y ago
  Thanks, I think I understand. I think the people in the world could do with more compassion. To stay with the example of telemarketers, my issue is that whoever benefits from the operation is not the one bearing the consequences, the externalities of the deed - I mean, they are not the ones yelled at by the desperate people on the other end of the line. So the operators effectively outsource this misery to the pawns that are the telemarketers. We as a society do this thing often, with everything we don't want to face directly, like the butchering of the animals that we consume. The proper way to go about it would be regulation, I think. For example, to ban telemarketing altogether.

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Why is it so terrible in particular? Regarding information safety on the Internet, I think the cat is long out of the bag now. Forget AI, information is alread

by npteljes 3y ago

im3w1l 3y ago
To preface it's a strong gut feeling that I don't know where exactly it is coming from. So I'm trying to understand it myself. I think the reason I feel so opposed to it is because human connection is one of the most beautiful things. Forming friendships. And heaven banning counter-acts that and counterfeits that. If you find out your friends were fake, in a very literal sense, enough times you may stop trying to find friends. You may fall into a learned helplessness and isolation, where you must scream but there is no real to hear. Only fake phantoms feigning sympathy, gone tomorrow and replaced with new faces.
- npteljes 3y ago
  Thanks, I think I understand. I think the people in the world could do with more compassion. To stay with the example of telemarketers, my issue is that whoever benefits from the operation is not the one bearing the consequences, the externalities of the deed - I mean, they are not the ones yelled at by the desperate people on the other end of the line. So the operators effectively outsource this misery to the pawns that are the telemarketers. We as a society do this thing often, with everything we don't want to face directly, like the butchering of the animals that we consume. The proper way to go about it would be regulation, I think. For example, to ban telemarketing altogether.