So we get a fresh new cheap way to spread propaganda and lies and erode trust all across society while cementing power and control for a few at the top, and in return get a few measly icons (as if there weren’t literally thousands of them freely available already) and silly images for momentaneous amusement?

What a rotten exchange.

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SamuelAdams 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I wonder what will happen to the entire legal system. It used to be fairly difficult to create convincing photos and videos.

AI can probably fool most court judges now. Or the defense can refute legitimate evidence by saying “it’s AI / false”. How would that be refuted?

	▲	jll29 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yes, that is a major worry of mine, too. CCTV evidence is worth nil now (could be generated in whole or part), and even eye-witness testimony can be trusted (sure, a witness may think they saw the alleged perpetrator, but perhaps they just saw an AI-generated video/projection of someone).
	▲	BLKNSLVR 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		MS13 was literally tattooed on his knuckles!
	▲	Gigachad 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Multiple data sources, considering the trustworthiness of the source of the information, and accountability for lying. You might generate an AI video of me committing a crime, But the CCTV on the street didn't show it happening and my phone cell tower logs show I was at home. For the legal system I don't think this is going to be the biggest problem. It's going to be social media that is hit hardest when a fake video can go viral far faster than fact checking can keep up.
	▲	idiotsecant 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		By having people also testify to authenticity and coming down like the hand of God on fakers, the same way we make sure evidence is real now.
	▲	gedy 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		If it means anything, I have a 1990 Almanac from an old encyclopedia that warns the exact same thing about digital photo manipulation. I don't think it really matters at this point

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jll29 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

AI can also be used to fight propaganda, for instance BiasScanner makes you aware of potentially manipulative news: https://biasscanner.org .

So that makes AI a "dual good", like a kitchen knife: you can cut your tomato or kill you neighbor with it, entirely up to the "user". Not all users are good, so we'll see an intense amplification of both good and bad.

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jrumbut 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

AI is certainly a dual good but I think the project is misguided at best.

I put in one of the driest descriptions of the Holocaust I could find and it got a very high score for bias, calling a factual description of a massacre emotional sensationalism because it inevitably contains a lot of loaded words.

It also doesn't differentiate between reporting, commentary, poetry, or anything else. It takes text and spits out a number, which is a very shallow analysis.

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dymk 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's more work to fight bullshit than it is to generate it, though. Saying "Use AI to fight it" is inherently a losing strategy when the other side also has an AI that is just as powerful.

	▲	jrumbut 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And no amount of BS detecting tells you what is true. The challenge that I see a lot of people have is they really don't have a framework to incorporate new information into. They're adrift, every new "fact" (whether true or false) blows them in a new direction. Often they get led in terrible directions from statements that are entirely true (but missing important context). A lot of financial cons work that way, a long string of true statements that seem to lead to a particular conclusion. I know that if someone is offering me 20% APY there will usually be some risk or fee that offsets those market-beating gains (it may be a worthwhile risk or a well earned fee, but that number needs to trigger further investigation). We need people to be equipped with that sort of framework in as many areas as possible, but we seem to be moving backwards in that area.

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nullsanity 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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thesmtsolver2 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Don’t blame the tools. Stalin, Mao and Hitler didn’t need AI.