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I don't think it will be so bad.

All Internet comment sections, pictures, video, and really anything on electronic screens will become assumed false by default.

Therefore the only use of the Internet and most technology capable of generating audio and video will be entertainment.

I already distrust-by-default most of what is online that isn't hard reference material, even if not AI generated.




Three men make a tiger.

- 龐蔥, some time c. 350 BC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_men_make_a_tiger


Stupid people who use bad heuristics to determine the existence of tigers will exist with or without AI.

If AI will make it more dangerous for stupid people, then AI can also make it safer.


Can? Sure. Will it? That's the alignment problem, or one of the aspects of it.


No, there will be echo-chambers where some content will resonate. This can be partly fake content.


The cult of Qanon effectively killed any hope I have that people are rational actors when it comes to consuming online content.


Remove "online" from your sentence and the sentence will still be true.


But they're organizing online. That's the thing. When it was just the Jonestown cult or the Waco terrorists, that was at least localized. But now they're able to use the Internet to whip up 10k people to assault the Capitol when they don't get their way. That's a real problem.




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