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    4 months ago

    But the sad thing is, while you’re right that most people of that ilk don’t need much prodding, there has been a worrying trend of indoctrination. The new far right is scary in their ability to bring people into the fold. This makes that ability all the more powerful.

    And I think you’re being too flippant about the loss of confidence in evidence. I get it, photoshop was a powerful tool to alter reality, but to wholly create a new one with absolutely zero know-how is a very different beast.

    AI porn is a great example. Yeah, photoshop has allowed people to make “fakes” of whomever they wanted to see naked, but now everyone’s likeness is able to put into any situation with no photoshop skills required.

    Or look at it this way. Bombs have existed for a long time. But if a website hypothetically made your phone or laptop capable of just printing a bomb with any household printer, it changes the nature of the problem. Sure, anyone could’ve downloaded instructions and taken the time to build one with stuff under their sink, but the ubiquity and unfettered access to ready-made bombs is a factor that needs to be taken into consideration. Putting something that was out of reach for so many without technical know-how, with the capacity to cause great harm, into the hands of anyone who wants it, is a problem.

    And if it’s not a problem, it will become one. It’s just a matter of time.

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      Yeah it’s a problem but it’s not the society-collapsing event you folk are making it out to be. People are increasingly radicalized because the world sucks and world leaders are asleep at the helm, not because of perceived evidence of whatever distraction the far right is talking about this week. The fake evidence only entrenches those already too far in the hole, it didn’t put them in the hole. It’s a many-faceted issue of which AI is not even top 10. AI being made up to be this grand societal problem is at best a symptom of the problem, that at a societal level we don’t value our collective future anymore.

      I know how the far right operates, I was in that hole 8 years ago. Nobody from the left isle pulled me out of it, I just started reading the sources they were citing and realized it didn’t add up. That’s what you have to encourage, if you want to help anybody. Don’t preach doom and gloom, just tell people to read the cited source. If they start talking about (((them))) then they’re too far gone anyway and you’re only entrenching them in their beliefs by being the boogeyman they were promised would come. AI isn’t a factor, anybody can lie. Cryptography has existed for ages, secure and verifiable communications are already a reality and could completely mitigate the issue, it’s just a matter of getting the people in charge to steer the damn ship.

      3D printed guns didn’t turn out to be the problem it was hyped up to be, either.