Given that at some point in the not-to-distant -perhaps even the very, very near- future the ai tools for creating fictional deepfake video will become completely indistinguishable from the real thing and widely available. Audio is very nearly there already. What happens when anyone can make a video of anyone doing anything to the point where it ceases to be evidence of wrongdoing? What I mean by blackmail becoming bragging is that people could do the most heinous of things, film them and then release them through alternative channels for everyone to see and then simply claim that it's a deepfake designed to smear their character by those who dislike them and nobody would know any different.
What becomes of a civilization that completely loses the ability to differentiate what is real and what is not? No, let me rephrase that as it is not quite accurate. The question should actually be: What becomes of a civilization that, both willingly and knowingly, discards any possibility of discerning what is real from what is not. I see no way in which it ends well for anyone.
It's sort of like that already. At least in the poisoned and diseased minds of those who swallow the horseshit entirely. Once all available information becomes horseshit then...I dunno. Total chaos and mass bloodshed for reasons nobody fully understands, maybe? At that point everyone is just guessing at what is real and true. Although, those who have become aware of the tactics used against us should be able to suss out some of the bullshit. Hard to say when dealing with what would essentially be an alien intelligence whose motivations are not clear. That is assuming ai is capable of ever developing to the point of "consciousness" and "free will" as we understand it, of course. If it isn't then the strategies and tactics will give away that it's simply the same old people playing the same old game that they have forever.
DeusExMachina 0 points 2 weeks ago
It's sort of like that already. At least in the poisoned and diseased minds of those who swallow the horseshit entirely. Once all available information becomes horseshit then...I dunno. Total chaos and mass bloodshed for reasons nobody fully understands, maybe? At that point everyone is just guessing at what is real and true. Although, those who have become aware of the tactics used against us should be able to suss out some of the bullshit. Hard to say when dealing with what would essentially be an alien intelligence whose motivations are not clear. That is assuming ai is capable of ever developing to the point of "consciousness" and "free will" as we understand it, of course. If it isn't then the strategies and tactics will give away that it's simply the same old people playing the same old game that they have forever.