AI makes it cheap and easy to create propaganda at scale.

The logical end of the ‘Solution to bad speech is better speech’ has arrived in the age of state-sponsored social media propaganda bots versus AI-driven bots arguing back

  • xkforce@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    1 year ago

    Because people should consider the pros and cons of what they work on not just pretend that none of the responsibility for those cons is theirs. AI is one of the things that could wipe out humanity. Not in the terminator sense but through unparalleled distruption of the economy and by facilitating a wedge between people through the production of propaganda like none that weve ever seen. i.e deepfakes, personally tailored propaganda etc.

    • Touching_Grass@lemmy.worldEnglish
      43·
      1 year ago

      to wipe out humanity

      Does it? Doesn’t that threat exist even without AI. At its current state its a glorified chatbot. Get rid of it, we still have every think tank filled with quants, statisticians, social scientists and marketing teams pushing all that propaganda. Its not AI doing it. Its humans.

      But AI does have potential to also develop new medicines. New materials. It has potential for a lot more good.

      It also has a lot of potential to give people some powerful pocket access to some basic services they normally wouldn’t have. Imagine an AI trained to help people sort out their finances. Act like an r/askdocs. Help with questions about new hobbies.

      So where you see panic, other people see hope. And it isn’t the inventors job to tell you or others how to use something.

      If we destroy ourselves with every bit of advancement then we deserve it. It would be an inevitability.