His immediate concern is that the internet will be flooded with false photos, videos and text, and the average person will “not be able to know what is true anymore.”
maybe it's just me, but seems like this isn't a problem with technology but rather with how we organize society
He is also worried that A.I. technologies will in time upend the job market. Today, chatbots like ChatGPT tend to complement human workers, but they could replace paralegals, personal assistants, translators and others who handle rote tasks. “It takes away the drudge work,” he said. “It might take away more than that.”
The reality of the situation is that you can't put toothpaste bake in the tube. This tech creates a huge competitive advantage, and any countries that try to suppress it will find themselves left behind technologically. AIs can analyze data on a massive scale and identify patterns that humans have no hope of finding. AI systems can massively improve planning and resource allocation. This will revolutionize industries like manufacturing. Nobody is going to willingly give up this sort of advantage.
We already have foreign state actors & profit maximizing corporate actors working against the average western citizens interest.
They're already doing their level best to exploit those foolish and credulous to be easy marks. This is already taking our societies to a place where life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are no longer in mosts grasp.
So yeah, generative A.I. will allow a deluge of content that means a significantly greater percent of the population get entangled in the web of propaganda. In the same way that recommended feeds with targeted adverts & content has already been doing.
A pause in A.I. research might stop us being turned into paper clips. But without a fundamental restructuring of how our big tech companies are funded the societies we know are still utterly doomed. Either the user or the state is going to need to pay. Our current system where tech companies fund themselves by selling their users minds to those who would exploit them will take us somewhere very dark with the technology that's already out there.
I don't know why but I m pumped for the public internet to be littered with fake photos, so that people no longer lose their jobs over dumb things they did 10 years ago, and so that governments can no longer spy on their people reliably
Not to rain on your parade, but I'm concerned we'll have massive further spike in violent mobs of believers in a world conspiracy of pedophile space lizards and such, while people can still lose their jobs over dumb things they didn't even do 10 years ago, or get swatted or put on a no-fly list "just in case"...
I don't know if I've seen it with US politics but it was blindingly obvious the US or someone else were using bots during the coup in Bolivia and the attempted one in Venezuela.
Here’s another, perhaps more pressing problem: people will have to prove it WASN’T them saying something in that Instagram post or that YouTube video. It’s one thing for Joe Biden’s team to debunk a deep fake. Quite another for some teenager to convince all the other kids at school that he didn’t say something embarrassing in a TikTok.
Another thing people will do is exculpate themselves by pointing at a real video and saying, "That was made by an AI. I'd never do something like that."
