The “bot blog poisoning other bots against you and getting your job applications auto-rejected” isn’t really something that would play out with people.
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XLE@piefed.social 3 weeks agoYou’re describing things that people can do. In fact, maybe it was just a person.
If he thinks all those things are bad, he should be “terrified” that bloggers can blog anonymously already.
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
XLE@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
They’re called rumors
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Rumors don’t work remotely the same way as the suggested scenario.
XLE@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
It’s a 1:1 correlation. Are you not familiar with any of the age-old cautionary tales about them?
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s the same thing as people who are concerned about AI generating non-consensual sexual imagery.
Sure anyone with photoshop could have done it before but unless they had enormous skill they couldn’t do it convincingly and there were well defined precedents that they broke the law. Now Grok can do it for anyone who can type a prompt and cops won’t do anything about it.
So yes, anyone could have technically done it before but now it’s removing the barriers that prevented every angry crazy person with a keyboard from being able to cause significant harm.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I think on balance, the internet was a bad idea. AI is just exemplifying why. Humans are simply not meant to be globally connected. Fucking town crazies are supposed to be isolated, mocked, and shunned, not create global delusions about contrails or Jewish space lasers or flat Earth theory. Or like… white supremacy.
XLE@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
II think there’s a few key differences there.
I struggle to find a good text analogy for what Grok is doing with its zero-cost, rapid-fire CSAM generation…