Using AI to impersonate another human, real or, fictional should become a crime. It is becoming rapidly apparent that people are far more easily manipulated than we would like to think. We’re staring down the barrel of a world where anyone with $7500 bucks can orchestrate global conversation on any topic they want be it religious, economic, or political.
a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service
Submitted 1 month ago by Zak@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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Manjushri@piefed.social 1 month ago
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Who or what is a a16z?
Zak@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm.
bigchungus@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Lakhani said Doublespeed doesn’t support “political efforts.”
…for the same price.
AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 1 month ago
And even if it’s never political, so what?
Someone uses it to promote a dangerous supplement, with thousands of fake, AI-generated videos of people taking it without issues, and suddenly a bunch of people buy it, take it, and suffer severe consequences, or even die.
But good thing it’s not gonna manipulate who you’d vote for amirite? Totally harmless! /s
bigchungus@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Oh, I agree with you. My point was that they will probably support more political efforts than the spokespeople will have you believe.
Icytrees@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
If dead internet theory was the goal.
seraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
what in the actual 1984 is that thumbnail
tal@lemmy.today 1 month ago
It’s showing cell phones as marionettes. Marionettes are sometimes used as idiom used to indicate that someone else is, behind the scenes, controlling something. Here, the company is controlling social media accounts.
seraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
yes, i understood the metaphor, in my comment i meant “what the fuck”
CatsPajamas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
How do I tag db0 to ask if we can make the horde make leftist instathotties to combat this
SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Flood the feed with a million twinks and AOCs and Republican Congress will coom itself until early retirement.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Only good capitalist is a dead capitalist.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Bots, repeat after me: Glory to Arstotzka, best country in the world!
General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Maybe it’s time to have a little think about that word, “influencer”, and how that is a job with which people make money.
ChogChog@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Great, now there’s MSMaaS??
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
A16Z should be shut down and all their mid to senior level employees should be required to pick between real community service work (de-mining, live-in janitor at a hospice service, custodian at an infectious disease hospital) for 20 years or doing 40 in jail. Full asset seizure in both cases.
count_dongulus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The thing is, what they’re doing isn’t technically criminal. It just violates the terms of use of most social media sites and apps.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Their crypto pyramids schemes and pump and dumps were also technically legal. And yet it is impossible for a pyramid scheme to work.
You have “technically legal” schemes in other countries too. If there is a desire to address criminality a way can be found.
If you want to achieve something, coming up with excuses around why it is not possible rarely bring results.
the_q@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Ah yes the old legal vs right argument.
M1ch431@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
It would be wise to make openly manipulating social media with AI illegal, immediately.
SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 1 month ago
Too complicated. Arson is much, much simpler.
tal@lemmy.today 1 month ago
No point. I’m sure that they’re not the only ones, and there will be more.
One possibility is that we just have to have expensive identities — the “Reddit model” where anyone who wants to can just create a new, anonymous identity doesn’t work. We can maybe be pseudonymous, but we might not be able to create lots of identities the way we do today.
Or maybe we’ll have to have a more-elaborate reputation system.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Shutting down the legal entity isn’t that strong of an incentive, I agree.
Having to do 20 years community service as a junior janitor at an infectious disease hospital in rural congo and losing all your money (every last cent) is exactly the type of incentive that would work with American VC types.
Not saying that US society (as it stands today) is capable of reforms, but that doesn’t mean one shouldn’t take a sober attitude when evaluating the type of incentives that could work.