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We talk too much about hallucination and too little about the more mundane elephant in the room that AI, whatever its effectiveness, will simply be used more fo
by gdulli 3mo ago
We talk too much about hallucination and too little about the more mundane elephant in the room that AI, whatever its effectiveness, will simply be used more for scam and deception than positive uses.
- high_na_euv 3mo agoI dont think a few scams here and there outweight positive usecases
- siriusastrebe 3mo agoWe're about to see our political campaigns flooded with fake videos, slander, fabrications, and misinformation. Used to be you could be relatively certain if something was a video it was too much effort to be photoshopped. Not true any more.
- high_na_euv 3mo agoMaybe it will make ppl to be skeptic?
- ceejayoz 3mo agoI take it you haven't met people.
- kube-system 3mo agoI’m curious as to both of your media markets, because my perception is that this is already the mainstream. AI generated political ads are something I see multiple times per day. Not even just shadow actors on social media, but also TV ads from registered lobbying groups And comment sections of the social media I consume are filled with “AI!” on any post about a politically sensitive topic even from reputable sources.
- autoexec 3mo agoThe same was true for photographs yet we survived following the invention of photoshop. The truth is that you don't even need video or photos to trick stupid people. Text alone allows for political campaigns flooded with slander, fabrications, and misinformation and some percentage of the population will fall for it. I'd say the best thing we can do is better educate the public to think critically and become media savvy, but instead we'll be forcing our children to read bible verses in school so I don't see the situation improving any time soon.
- Ferret7446 3mo agoYep, people forget that this was how things worked for most of human history. There was only a very short period of time where you could reasonably trust photos/videos as "objective" evidence. Words could be falsified, signatures and stamps could be falsified, witnesses could be bribed. Critical thinking is now back in vogue after a brief intermission.
- Planktonne 3mo agoIt's not just a few scams though. It's a lot of scams, and a lot of propaganda, and a lot of CSAM, and even beyond the overtly negative, it's a tidal wave of slop in music, in publishing, in everything else. Some technology has more negative use cases than positive; this appears to be one of them.
- cwillu 3mo agoI don't think a few stock photo replacements here and there outweigh the negative use-cases.
- slopinthebag 3mo agoI find it fascinating that this is a popular anti-bitcoin argument, but (often) the same people making that argument actually find AI useful. So they experience a mild case of cognitive dissonance.
- hansvm 3mo agoThe Bitcoin argument is usually paired with "there are no non-scam use cases which aren't better served by other methods/tech."
- slopinthebag 3mo agoWhich is an obvious falsehood for both bitcoin and AI.
- Paradigm2020 3mo agoObvious falsehood for AI. What can bitcoin "obvious" uniquely do that cannot be done better by other coins / tokens out there ? (As in privacy tokens have a blockchain and privacy, stable coins have utility of actually being able to be used as a means of payment etc etc ) en
- slopinthebag 3mo ago[dead]
- oneshtein 3mo agoJust make scams illegal — problem solved.
- Smoosh 3mo agoIf only it were that easy! The economy would collapse if scams were stopped. There would be no progress. The president would be poor. We are already losing the scam war with china, this would just hand victory to them. Is that the world you want to live in? /s But seriously, I wonder how much of the economy is scam activity?