I’m afraid of AI but not because I think it’s going to become skynet tomorrow, it’s because of all the social ills that are already clearly attached to it.

- Spam

- Deep Fakes

- Porn

- Buggy Software

- Economic Bubbles

- Degradation in people’s abilities and learned dependence on ChatGPT for basic functions.

- Job loss through enshittification ala AI interviews and Telemarketers

- Climate Change, noise pollution etc.

- Mass Surveillance

It’s much more an Idiocracy AI than Terminator.

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pacomerh a day ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, this is definitely not sustainable. We're all getting tired of the content quality going downhill. If it's gonna to be like this for a while, I guess new social networks will have to emerge and moderate more? maybe, especially since the government definitely isn't interested in moderating anything. They just want to win races.

	▲	devilsdata a day ago \| parent [-]
		How do you ever have a social media network that is immune to this from now? You could with the best intentions start a non-profit, defederated, open-source, grass roots social network. It would go great, until the moment it hits critical mass and becomes prey for people who are willing to piss in the pond to make money. There's no way to defend against it. You can just copy and paste text from an LLM into the reply box.

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__natty__ a day ago | parent | prev [-]

This. We don’t need AI searching for critical bugs in the software, enshittified life quality is already enough.