I believe in this trend. The amount of people that can use powerful tools without any knowledge is increasing. Some might just GPT their way into creating more darkness. Greed is a nefarious beast. Always has been.
We will be going back farther than most realize. A person receiving a phone call in 1950, a telegram in 1850, a book in 1750, or a clay tablet in 8650 BCE all had confidence it was the thoughts and words of another flesh and blood human being. "Going back" does not mean pre-internet days, it means pre-distant communication days.
Let’s go back further. You can’t just limit your own personal engagements to non-electronic ones. You also need your entire network of connections to not be tainted.
Im somebody else replying to this thread. I think the predators will follow whichever troden path is to catch more and more victims in their nets. If the ocean of darknes dries up of victims they’ll adapt to land. AI technologies will, in my opinion, become more entangled with the real world. More devices are listening, seeing, labeling and categorizing and that will only explode in ubiquity. I think there will be no escape from it even in the real world.
The idea of this have me a chuckle. Instead of worring about skynet destroying all of humanity, we should be worried about them constantly asking about our car's extended warranty.
Seriously though, a real life robot is more expensive to make and run than an online one. Plus, there's nowhere for them to put "permanent" content, they'd have to talk to us one by one, or start graffitotagging ads everywhere. Any robots they did make would be obviously robots, and we can avoid them. It doesn't scale the same way.
