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[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

After the SORA AI reveal today I'm starting to see that luddites have a point. I don't think we'll ever have terminator-style scenarios but the amount of damage misinformation and disinformation is doing to our society and now WILL do to our society is proof enough we need to start stepping back. I've seen the amazing benefits of AI first hand - new drugs, new treatments, more medical knowledge than ever before, gene sequencing of never before seen organisms. I've seen AI help with all those amazing beneficial things.

But I feel like the bad actors are wining, and winning very hard. Basically everything is unregulated and corporations refuse to take even a modicum of responsibility for anything. The worst thing is knowing that our octogenerian overlords don't even know how to use a phone. I don't see why i should continue to be a tech optimist when we all know that things are only going to get worse from here on out. In a post-truth society all we can really do is regress.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The prophecy wasn't on terminator, it was on metal gear solid 2, the truth will be unrecognizable from the fakes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Yup Kojima 1000 years ahead of his time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

quite concerning that misinformation is not taken seriously enough and is allowed to poison minds like a plague with no opposition

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think it may get to the point where tracking who owns what is a lost cause and societies with larger commons are going to pull ahead while our "individualism" centered societies will fall into an endless wave of scams and grifting.