The danger isn’t just bad art, and only thinking of genAI is dangerous. It’s about how it’s being woven into the systems that manage us. It can already analyze years of a person’s digital activity to make automated judgments on employment or detect “wrongthink” in political contexts. We’re essentially building an invisible bureaucracy that can categorize and penalize people at a scale no human could ever audit. And do so at speed an efficiency that not even a whole department of humans could ever compete with. That’s the atom bomb.
Algorithmic internet is already a horrible problem and AI can make it worse.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Yeah I’m worried about them a) creating botnets that simulate grassroots political movements b) as this user said, the joke about everybody having their own government agent was absurd because that level of attention given to and individuals activity was impossible. That’s about to be a lot less impossible.