The AI will change the internet forever. We're on a trajectory of the complete digitisation of human society.
The algorithm has won. And for people who's entire reality is a computer screen, this is pretty much their apocalypse. Now nothing online can be trusted.
The only choice left is their greatest fear: going outside.
Shit, I welcome the internet apocalypse. The internet as an extension of mass media has become a massive threat to people's psyches.
My version:
It's destroyed all external incentive for debating strangers online. You can keep real people writing essays in earnest while you have chatGPT reply for you, and while I don't have the festering hatred to do that shit, malignantly online bigots absolutely do
AI is a misnomer, but it's still got implications
I wouldn't be surprised if AI language models haven't already been used to power social media botnets for years. Like how all the tech in smartphones were first used as military and intelligence sectors before becoming a consumer commodity.
radiolab had a thing about chatbots passing certain formulations of the turing test (and did the experiment with their own audience) in 2012
Ah yes around the same time as the Arab spring. :thinkin-lenin:
Being a little conspiratorial here. I dont think the Arab spring was AI driven. But they were experimenting with online rabble rousing at the time and were probably wondering how to do that without real people.
The analogy being: earnest posters = s300 missiles, and chatGPT = geranium drones
I decided to go outside semi-permanently for the past 2 months and I've never been happier, would recommend. AI memes slap but that will be my only engagement with it for a while
Me too. Got a job where I'm not sitting in front of a screen all day and realized I hadn't listened to a podcast in weeks.
technology that will allow people to instantly generate whatever kind of stimulus they want at will... I don't think that's gonna make more people want to go outside
We already have had a fake dril tweet generator accounts for quite some time you could compare them.
I was so high I forgot I have used an ai tweet generator website on my own accounts. I've deleted all but one priv account though, wiping my brain clean of all twitter shit before I start class lol.
I touched grass once; it was terrible. I spent the next two days in a Benadryl-induced fugue state, which really cramped my style.
I was being glib there but thats sort of the way things are going and it is bleak. Theres already an industry for generating fake user content on the internet. Like its how you manufacture consent on the internet. Leaving good reviews for a product is fairly simple but having comment bots to shill for a war is more difficult because you must respond to other people. That usually required human labor to seem genuine but with AI its a breeze. So you'll never know if the person disagreeing with you online is real or not!
The best case scenario is everyone understands this and gets off major social media platforms. WWorst case is we all stay on and think the bots are real people. In a way we are a "language model"; what people say to us in the past influences what we say in the future. If most things said to a real human comes from AI then you're gonna get an AI trained human.
As for people who can only get socialization from online, you'll loose any sort of large anonymous forums. Only on niche sites where you can assume no botnet has interest in could you assume people are real.
The internet as an extension of mass media has become a massive threat to people’s psyches. :astronaut-1:
