alt Hacker NewsWhat is the astronomical social damage that this has caused?
I am having so much trouble relating to and even understanding what the anti-AI crowd's position is. It looks like a caricature to me.
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School is almost a joke now. The fraction of students who have a propensity to cheat now has increased, and the accuracy of the cheated material is so good teachers/professors can't or don't have the resources to properly address it.
It's certainly accelerated the breakdown of trust. The US government has turned into an AI slopaganda shop. People don't know what to believe anymore when anything could be fake.
A large portion of the content on the internet is now generated by AI.
You can and do have full conversations with bots and not know. I want to interact with humans not LLMs.
There’s no way to combat it. An army of bots can post a specific rhetoric and it can and does sway people’s opinions.
The new version of Digg was shut down because they couldn’t find a way to combat AI. They were at least trying to, other platforms are just eating it up because “user activity” is a win for them.
How easy it is now to forge data (video, images, etc) will rott society. Cheating for students is now so much easier. There many examples.
Is it really that hard to understand?
one example from today https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cewq1w7r0zgo
i'm no fan of the politician, but scams like this one are increasing at a significant rate and are a lot harder for non-technically minded people to spot, think your grandmother etc
also recently https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7pl7zj024o
also: grok CSAM; plundering massive swathes of copyrighted material / intellectual property; making electricity more expensive for regular folks; increasing global carbon footprint building massive data centres; destroying a whole swathe of entry level jobs for recent grads (not just software junior roles); circular funding deals to keep the bubble (scam) alive, while positioning the large companies as necessary for govt. work so when the bubble bursts tax payers will have to bail them out; people with mental health issues being left to run riot with the tool; suicides; the degradation of human knowledge workers using their knowledge (the muscle atrophies when you don't use it cos "ai said yes") ...
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The president of the United States tweeted an AI generated image of himself as Jesus Christ descending from the sky and saving a sick person.
I feel like that is a good example. Now multiply that by hundreds of millions of AI generated propaganda images across the world.
And that’s even without touching the effect of fake videos on democracy or Elons pedo-bot that generates CSAM on demand of specific people…