Effective-Avocado470 t1_j9tlca0 wrote on February 24, 2023 at 1:50 PM

Reply to comment by drawkbox in Microsoft Bing AI ends chat when prompted about 'feelings' by Ssider69

Don't get me wrong, I believe AI may well eventually become conscious, much like Data in star trek, but we are still a long way from that.

The scary thing is these current AI will synthesize the worst of us into a powerful weapon of ideas and messaging. Combine it with deepfakes and no one will know what the truth is anymore

drawkbox t1_j9tm7pq wrote on February 24, 2023 at 1:57 PM

Yeah humans really aren't ready for the manipulation aspect. It won't really be conscious but it will have so many responses/manipulation points it will feel conscious and magic like it is reading minds.

Our evolutionary responses and reactions are being played already.

It was "if it bleeds it leads" but now is "enragement is engagement". The enragement engagement algorithms are already being tuned from supposed neutral algorithms but they already have bias and pump different content to achieve engagement.

With social media being real time and somewhat of a tabloid, the games with fakes and misinformation will be immense.

We might already be seeing videos of events, protests, war for instance that are completely fake and it is slipping the Turing test. That is the scary thing, we won't really know when it has gone past that. Even just for the pranks, humans will use this like everything. You almost can't trust it already.

addiktion t1_j9u7vr0 wrote on February 24, 2023 at 4:25 PM

I wonder how long until some country is lured into a false flag attack from this. It's gonna get scary not just because of what the AI will be capable of, but because it means zero trust from anything you see, hear, or are exposed too once this happens in the wake of the aftermath; which means more authoritarian methods will need to be imposed to ensure authentic communication methods.

danielravennest t1_j9unv51 wrote on February 24, 2023 at 6:06 PM

> authoritarian methods will need to be imposed to ensure authentic communication methods.

No. That's actually one use for blockchains. Record an event. Derive a hash value from the recording. Post the hash value to a blockchain, which time-stamps it. If several people record the same event from different viewpoints independently and have the same timestamps, you can be pretty sure it was a real event.

"People" can be a municipal streetcam, and security cameras on either side of a street, assuming the buildings have different owners. If they all match, it was a real event.