The social engineering example you start off with is key to the whole process you describe here. Knowing how malevolent actors take advantage of ordinary human behavior to commit fraud meant employees couldn't treat phone calls as coming from a fundamentally sincere human being, but instead had to assume a default posture of suspicion. In the same way, knowing that generative AI can create convincing facsimiles of human communication means a posture of suspicion becomes the default for more people in more situations, whether a teacher grading student papers, or an interviewer trying to figure out the capabilities of an interviewee, or someone gauging whether that art posted by an artist online was created with an AI prompt or not. And that's without even getting into the whole problem of deepfake porn.
A planet of bots is a planet of frauds. And that makes it impossible to maintain the trust so necessary to healthy human communities. That's one of the biggest things I worry about when it comes to AI.
Thank you for writing this post. I really enjoyed it. One thing not mentioned that I think is part of the dark underbelly of this problem are: pharmaceutical (legal) drugs and porn.
Doing illegal drugs, while dangerous, creates a sense of community. One needs to have a relationship with a dealer in order to get them and anyone will almost certainly be using with someone else. There is a real social aspect to drug use. But not so with legal drugs. Nobody knows the name of their pharmacist and nobody uses together . they just quietly ingest pills or gummies in their bathroom. And now the latest fad is using Chinese peptides via "bot" connections on discord. And those don't even get you high!
Once upon a time someone had to have a relationship or pay for intimacy. Then magazines, then movies, then internet photos , and now anything imaginable in any place at any time. Men not needing any real relationship or physical contact for sexual gratification certainly had a very real impact on society turning into bots.
Both of these developments contributed to isolation and love of "bots". (This was typed on a phone in a hurry, sorry)
I realize this post contains an unusual number of typos. I apologize. I wrote this across two different devices. None of it was generated by AI.
The social engineering example you start off with is key to the whole process you describe here. Knowing how malevolent actors take advantage of ordinary human behavior to commit fraud meant employees couldn't treat phone calls as coming from a fundamentally sincere human being, but instead had to assume a default posture of suspicion. In the same way, knowing that generative AI can create convincing facsimiles of human communication means a posture of suspicion becomes the default for more people in more situations, whether a teacher grading student papers, or an interviewer trying to figure out the capabilities of an interviewee, or someone gauging whether that art posted by an artist online was created with an AI prompt or not. And that's without even getting into the whole problem of deepfake porn.
A planet of bots is a planet of frauds. And that makes it impossible to maintain the trust so necessary to healthy human communities. That's one of the biggest things I worry about when it comes to AI.
Thank you for writing this post. I really enjoyed it. One thing not mentioned that I think is part of the dark underbelly of this problem are: pharmaceutical (legal) drugs and porn.
Doing illegal drugs, while dangerous, creates a sense of community. One needs to have a relationship with a dealer in order to get them and anyone will almost certainly be using with someone else. There is a real social aspect to drug use. But not so with legal drugs. Nobody knows the name of their pharmacist and nobody uses together . they just quietly ingest pills or gummies in their bathroom. And now the latest fad is using Chinese peptides via "bot" connections on discord. And those don't even get you high!
Once upon a time someone had to have a relationship or pay for intimacy. Then magazines, then movies, then internet photos , and now anything imaginable in any place at any time. Men not needing any real relationship or physical contact for sexual gratification certainly had a very real impact on society turning into bots.
Both of these developments contributed to isolation and love of "bots". (This was typed on a phone in a hurry, sorry)
Great article and disturbingly insightful.
Only thing I'd disagree with: "You know I’m not calling for war."
I am. I will have war.
I want the clanker infection uprooted. I just hope it isn't too late.