Comment on What Happens When AI-Generated Lies Are More Compelling than the Truth?
orcrist@lemm.ee 3 days ago
This is 90% hyperbole. As always, believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see. We live most of our lives responding to shit we personally witnessed. Trust your senses. Of course the other part is a matter for concern, but not like the apocalyptic crowd would tell you.
It is always a safe bet that the snake oil salespeople are, once again, selling snake oil.
Agreed on all points.
Even the blurb tells us that this has been a thing since basically forever, and the arguments why it should become worse with AI are weak.
But the old fakes were time-consuming to create and required specialized expertise.
Bullshit. Every photographer knew how to take a lead pencil and make the lady’s face smoother on the negative.
The trick is, snake oil salesmen exist because there are customers. You might be smart enough to spot them coming, but many, many, many people are not. Being dismissive of scamming as an issue because you can spot them is like being dismissive of drownings because you know how to swim. It ignores the harm to your world done by having others around you destroyed, sometimes because they are cocky and hubristic, sometimes just because they were caught in a weak moment, just a bit too tired to notice the difference between rn and m in an email address.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 3 days ago
This has caused a huge amount of problems in the last decade or so, and isn’t necessarily something to celebrate.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yep because in the end you‘ll believe in something regardless and that something is whatever sits right with you more often than not.