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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 17 points 4 months ago

The rise of generative AI is the death of picture or video evidence.

And the written word, as useful information is buried under mountains of generated trash.

No one to date knows what the real consequences of this will be.

Dark Ages II

Call me crazy, but maybe we shouldn't be allowing people to work on such "advances" if they don't have the humanities/social sciences background to understand the consequences.

Consequences be damned! We have quarterly earnings reports to worry about!

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Hint: photo and video evidence has only been a thing for less than 200 years when photos and videos were invented. So if humanity managed without it before that, it can do so again.

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[–] InternationalHermit@lemmy.today 4 points 4 months ago

You will be happy to learn that the American court system still favors eyewitness testimony over any other kind of evidence, despite it being countlessly proven how unreliable eyewitness testimony actually is.

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[–] Miller@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Much the same was said about the printing press, common people with the power to publish and distribute ideas would be the end of civilisation. It wasn't, humanity has always lived fast and loose with its power for invention outstripping its ability to manage it. Comes from the selective pressures on us, find a way to survive now and worry about the long term effects later. Of course it will probably catch up with us one day.

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[+] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

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[–] snooggums@piefed.world 4 points 4 months ago

The printing press enhanced the spread of misinformation, as did video, and the internet after it. Hello propaganda!

LLMs don't allow for the spread of information like the printing press, video, and the internet because they just vomit stuff out and are completely unreliable because they are wrong even when it isn't intentional.