Comment by gdulli

3 hours ago

We talk too much about hallucination and too little about the more mundane elephant in the room that AI, whatever its effectiveness, will simply be used more for scam and deception than positive uses.

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slopinthebag  2 hours ago

I find it fascinating that this is a popular anti-bitcoin argument, but (often) the same people making that argument actually find AI useful. So they experience a mild case of cognitive dissonance.

  • hansvm  1 hour ago

    The Bitcoin argument is usually paired with "there are no non-scam use cases which aren't better served by other methods/tech."

high_na_euv  3 hours ago

I dont think a few scams here and there outweight positive usecases

  • cwillu  3 hours ago

    I don't think a few stock photo replacements here and there outweigh the negative use-cases.

  • Planktonne  3 hours ago

    It's not just a few scams though. It's a lot of scams, and a lot of propaganda, and a lot of CSAM, and even beyond the overtly negative, it's a tidal wave of slop in music, in publishing, in everything else.

    Some technology has more negative use cases than positive; this appears to be one of them.

  • siriusastrebe  3 hours ago

    We're about to see our political campaigns flooded with fake videos, slander, fabrications, and misinformation. Used to be you could be relatively certain if something was a video it was too much effort to be photoshopped. Not true any more.

    • autoexec  2 hours ago

      The same was true for photographs yet we survived following the invention of photoshop. The truth is that you don't even need video or photos to trick stupid people. Text alone allows for political campaigns flooded with slander, fabrications, and misinformation and some percentage of the population will fall for it. I'd say the best thing we can do is better educate the public to think critically and become media savvy, but instead we'll be forcing our children to read bible verses in school so I don't see the situation improving any time soon.