I'm aware of a huge uptick going on in Youtube world - and it utterly annoys me. It's all about money and nothing else. AI, I think, will eventually implode (yes, that's me making a prediction), and when it does, it will have something to do with people making money. According to one philosopher, money is the ontology of modernity.
That's one possibility. There are any number of potential problems - it may be any one or a number of them that will make it go bust. The biggest driver of AI use and profit, I suspect, are governments and their war machines. But, God has a way of saving us - sometimes using one disaster to avoid a worse disaster. There may come a great war...followed by a Butlerian Jihad (AI is really expensive and wasteful - and is only making a very few very rich). We'll see. We're headed somewhere very fast - and nobody knows where.
Can one dare hope that just as schools have begun separating kids from their phones for the school day, parents and other institutions can call for strict warnings and, yes, censoring AI fakes from their platforms. First Amendment shouldn't apply to deceptive content. We've never really faced an ocean of manufactured images and videos and there's no vaccine against credulity. We're at the point where the only thing we can know if real is what is standing physically in front of us. That we can touch, smell. and hear. Accept no substitutes!
I'm aware of a huge uptick going on in Youtube world - and it utterly annoys me. It's all about money and nothing else. AI, I think, will eventually implode (yes, that's me making a prediction), and when it does, it will have something to do with people making money. According to one philosopher, money is the ontology of modernity.
So how do they lose money on AI? The reporter in me says lawyers and lawsuits by people damaged by AI stuff.
That's one possibility. There are any number of potential problems - it may be any one or a number of them that will make it go bust. The biggest driver of AI use and profit, I suspect, are governments and their war machines. But, God has a way of saving us - sometimes using one disaster to avoid a worse disaster. There may come a great war...followed by a Butlerian Jihad (AI is really expensive and wasteful - and is only making a very few very rich). We'll see. We're headed somewhere very fast - and nobody knows where.
Can one dare hope that just as schools have begun separating kids from their phones for the school day, parents and other institutions can call for strict warnings and, yes, censoring AI fakes from their platforms. First Amendment shouldn't apply to deceptive content. We've never really faced an ocean of manufactured images and videos and there's no vaccine against credulity. We're at the point where the only thing we can know if real is what is standing physically in front of us. That we can touch, smell. and hear. Accept no substitutes!
Bad news: We still don’t have clear court rulings on COPYRIGHT yet, in the Internet world.
Will these AI slop decrease the appetite for random videos? Maybe it will accelerate the doom scroll fatigue syndrome.
Every abuse tend tends to self correct in the long run, but how long is the run?