AI has the tremendous potential to do both good and harm. Under governments now as incompetent and immoral as they are the potential for harm is great.
De-regulation is the name of the game and it has to be strictly regulated.
Under good competent government it is a valuable asset. Under fascist incompetent government it is just another tool of mass deception.
AI is a powerful technology we are not ready or responsible enough to integrate into our societies effectively.
As usual technology races ahead of social progress, and inept governance.
When you've got folks offing themselves after counseling by an AI bot, you know "civilization" has hit the nadir of its capitalistic slime bath. And even the Times runs the story.
We probably are not going to stop AI generated videos from being on the internet so it should be illegal to post them without clearly showing that they are AI generated.
I found out that most of the news I'd been listening to for the past few months had been generated by AI impersonators! So what I do now is expose myself only to trusted sources and assume all else is fake. That's easy, so now the interesting question is, why was I so bamboozled?
What I wrongly thought was going on was that content was being stolen from my trusted sources and repackaged with ugly AI visuals. So why not listen to it. Eventually I realized that the quantity of the stuff was much too high. Larry C. Johnson isn't producing six videos every day. I was thrown off for a while because the channel had his name on it. But then I found out that this was just because Larry had innocently neglected to use his own name for his channel. Another reason was I thought the people like Larry would have Youtube terminate impersonation channels. But on reflection one realizes that this is not so easy. The problem is that the impersonators were NOT copying content. Instead they would tell an AI to "generate a video of the latest news in the style of Larry C. Johnson," which they could do every hour. So the videos are in a sense original. Larry can't show that any copyrighted work was copied, so it isn't that easy to build a case.
The other thing was that while the visuals were hideous the imitations of people like Johnson were quite convincing. It had me fooled. Pundits like Johnson release hundreds of authentic videos and their views seldom if ever change. AIs are very good at imitating such things. The fake Larry would challenge the lies of the media as he always does. Those lies persist for years, so the AIs just copy the challenges he has made in the past. So the news was actually quite believable, not at all manipulative fake news. I was tempted to keep listening to it, but nah.
Pundits are becoming aware of these things. Recently Warren Buffett, possibly the most successful investor in history, put out a video denouncing impersonators recommending investments of which Mr. Buffett does not approve. This worse than the impersonating news, this is fraud. Well, he's very Big Money so he's got the power to do something about it. I'll leave it up to him.
CJ>>"It Should Be Illegal To Use AI To Deceive People"
Caitlin, if it isn't AI technologies that are used for this, then it will be OTHER technologies (like language, propaganda, narratives, etc.) to DECEIVE people. You're blaming 'a tool' rather than the SOURCE of the problem - which is 'lack of critical thinking, media literacy, and most of all, the SYSTEM of Capitalism'.
None of the things you mention is likely to be illegal in the US (though China is ACTUALLY making REAL strides in terms of regulating AI) (Watch this video for more on that: "AI for the People? China's Strategy for Technology, Inequality, and the Global South" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfuGRO6juOY).
People have been manipulated throughout history - be it with religious narratives, or others, be it with newspapers, public speeches, radio, television, movies, the internet and social media, and more. AI is the next evolution of technologies that will be used by those in power to enact and maintain the SAME status-quo systems that have existed BEFORE AI.
If you (or anyone) REALLY wants to fix these issues you mention, then they are likely to achieve BETTER results by focusing on the root/source of the problem, which is 'the easily hackable and manipulable human mind'. There are tools to address this problem (like critical thinking, media literacy, empathy, education, socialism, and more), but how many of 'us' (ordinary people) take the initiative of 'applying these tools' to solve the problem?
Regulation will help, but it will NOT solve the problem (no matter how much I wish it to). People need to TAKE RESPONSIBILITY for their own thoughts, actions, and words. Like you wrote in your recent article, "Nobody's Coming To Humanity's Rescue; We've Got To Save Ourselves", REGULATION is not coming to save us from AI - WE have got to save OURSELVES. People need to TAKE RESPONSIBILITY to 'learn the skills' so as NOT to be taken advantage of by AI technologies (or anything else).
I don't agree with your blanket 'black-and-white' approach to making things illegal - as such technologies (like AI) will be so deeply embedded in human societies (like the internet, cell phones, etc.) and there will be SO MANY nuanced usages of such technologies, that your 'make all this AI stuff illegal' wants/emotions/frustrations deviates from practical feasibility and real-world realities.
I totally agree, AI generated script and photos are generated to deceive, so Governments need to get with the times and ban AI altogether.
Unfortunately mankind is incapable of now discerning what is real and what is artificial, that’s why after all we have Governments, to protect the majority.
Corporate Greed needs to be curtailed, further, the notion that countries need to follow the “productivity” path, that “economic growth” is the "only way forward” is totally wrong.
Urban sprawl in Australia alone, must come to an end, unfortunately Corporate Greed works in the opposite direction.
All Marketing should be illegal 💯 ✊️
Fat chance with that.
AI has the tremendous potential to do both good and harm. Under governments now as incompetent and immoral as they are the potential for harm is great.
De-regulation is the name of the game and it has to be strictly regulated.
Under good competent government it is a valuable asset. Under fascist incompetent government it is just another tool of mass deception.
AI is a powerful technology we are not ready or responsible enough to integrate into our societies effectively.
As usual technology races ahead of social progress, and inept governance.
When you've got folks offing themselves after counseling by an AI bot, you know "civilization" has hit the nadir of its capitalistic slime bath. And even the Times runs the story.
We probably are not going to stop AI generated videos from being on the internet so it should be illegal to post them without clearly showing that they are AI generated.
I agree with everything you said!
Unfortunately, simply saying and/or writing "I would like" isn't enough. We need to take action. To change the facts.
I found out that most of the news I'd been listening to for the past few months had been generated by AI impersonators! So what I do now is expose myself only to trusted sources and assume all else is fake. That's easy, so now the interesting question is, why was I so bamboozled?
What I wrongly thought was going on was that content was being stolen from my trusted sources and repackaged with ugly AI visuals. So why not listen to it. Eventually I realized that the quantity of the stuff was much too high. Larry C. Johnson isn't producing six videos every day. I was thrown off for a while because the channel had his name on it. But then I found out that this was just because Larry had innocently neglected to use his own name for his channel. Another reason was I thought the people like Larry would have Youtube terminate impersonation channels. But on reflection one realizes that this is not so easy. The problem is that the impersonators were NOT copying content. Instead they would tell an AI to "generate a video of the latest news in the style of Larry C. Johnson," which they could do every hour. So the videos are in a sense original. Larry can't show that any copyrighted work was copied, so it isn't that easy to build a case.
The other thing was that while the visuals were hideous the imitations of people like Johnson were quite convincing. It had me fooled. Pundits like Johnson release hundreds of authentic videos and their views seldom if ever change. AIs are very good at imitating such things. The fake Larry would challenge the lies of the media as he always does. Those lies persist for years, so the AIs just copy the challenges he has made in the past. So the news was actually quite believable, not at all manipulative fake news. I was tempted to keep listening to it, but nah.
Pundits are becoming aware of these things. Recently Warren Buffett, possibly the most successful investor in history, put out a video denouncing impersonators recommending investments of which Mr. Buffett does not approve. This worse than the impersonating news, this is fraud. Well, he's very Big Money so he's got the power to do something about it. I'll leave it up to him.
CJ>>"It Should Be Illegal To Use AI To Deceive People"
Caitlin, if it isn't AI technologies that are used for this, then it will be OTHER technologies (like language, propaganda, narratives, etc.) to DECEIVE people. You're blaming 'a tool' rather than the SOURCE of the problem - which is 'lack of critical thinking, media literacy, and most of all, the SYSTEM of Capitalism'.
None of the things you mention is likely to be illegal in the US (though China is ACTUALLY making REAL strides in terms of regulating AI) (Watch this video for more on that: "AI for the People? China's Strategy for Technology, Inequality, and the Global South" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfuGRO6juOY).
People have been manipulated throughout history - be it with religious narratives, or others, be it with newspapers, public speeches, radio, television, movies, the internet and social media, and more. AI is the next evolution of technologies that will be used by those in power to enact and maintain the SAME status-quo systems that have existed BEFORE AI.
If you (or anyone) REALLY wants to fix these issues you mention, then they are likely to achieve BETTER results by focusing on the root/source of the problem, which is 'the easily hackable and manipulable human mind'. There are tools to address this problem (like critical thinking, media literacy, empathy, education, socialism, and more), but how many of 'us' (ordinary people) take the initiative of 'applying these tools' to solve the problem?
Regulation will help, but it will NOT solve the problem (no matter how much I wish it to). People need to TAKE RESPONSIBILITY for their own thoughts, actions, and words. Like you wrote in your recent article, "Nobody's Coming To Humanity's Rescue; We've Got To Save Ourselves", REGULATION is not coming to save us from AI - WE have got to save OURSELVES. People need to TAKE RESPONSIBILITY to 'learn the skills' so as NOT to be taken advantage of by AI technologies (or anything else).
I don't agree with your blanket 'black-and-white' approach to making things illegal - as such technologies (like AI) will be so deeply embedded in human societies (like the internet, cell phones, etc.) and there will be SO MANY nuanced usages of such technologies, that your 'make all this AI stuff illegal' wants/emotions/frustrations deviates from practical feasibility and real-world realities.
I totally agree, AI generated script and photos are generated to deceive, so Governments need to get with the times and ban AI altogether.
Unfortunately mankind is incapable of now discerning what is real and what is artificial, that’s why after all we have Governments, to protect the majority.
Corporate Greed needs to be curtailed, further, the notion that countries need to follow the “productivity” path, that “economic growth” is the "only way forward” is totally wrong.
Urban sprawl in Australia alone, must come to an end, unfortunately Corporate Greed works in the opposite direction.
we're truly circling the drain. the sooner we get right with guillotines the better, because nothing else is going to work
You're too much, Ms Johnstone.
Now please see this: https://maxwellm.substack.com/p/a-hypothetical-hypothesis-regarding