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.

  • MoneyIsTheDeepState [comrade/them,he/him]
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    2 years ago

    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

    • captcha [any]
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      2 years ago

      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.

      • dat_math [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        radiolab had a thing about chatbots passing certain formulations of the turing test (and did the experiment with their own audience) in 2012

        • captcha [any]
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          2 years ago

          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.