Comment by diatone

Deep fakes have always been horrible. The idea that someone - anyone - can take your image and represent you in ways that can ruin your reputation, is appalling. For example, revenge porn.

Having your likeness used to express an opinion that is the opposite of your own is nasty too. You can produce the kind of thing that has no courtesy, no grace, no kindness or care for the people around you.

The mass extraction and substitution of art has also caused a lot of unnecessary grief. Instead of AI enabling us to pursue creative work… it’s producing slop and making it harder for newbies to develop their craft. And making a lot of people anxious, fearful, and angry.

And finally of course astroturfing, phishing, that kind of thing has in principle become a lot more sophisticated.

It unnerves me that people can pull this capital lever against each other in ways that don’t obviously advance the common good.