Beth P

So I read the #NYT piece about the #Google "godfather of #AI." This part stuck out to me:

"His immediate concern is that the internet will be flooded with false photos, videos and text, and the average person will “not be able to know what is true anymore.”

Aren't we sorta kinda already there?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html

‘The Godfather of AI’ Quits Google and Warns of Danger Ahead

For half a century, Geoffrey Hinton nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT. Now he worries it will cause serious harm.

The New York Times
May 2, 2023 at 2:43pmWeb
Show threadYazdog8May 2, 2023
@BethGMS we were there years ago.
Show threadBeth PMay 2, 2023
@Yazdog8 that said, it can always get worse, I suppose.
Show threadElizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾May 3, 2023
@BethGMS We are already seeing the effects ... It is going to get so much worse. I think there will come a time when people will just stop trusting search engines and try find their information elsewhere.
Show threadPeter WeilnböckMay 3, 2023
@liztai @BethGMS
To be honest: I don’t see a big difference between AI and Humans producing nonsense. People lie all the time for various reasons. Photo manipulation is almost old as photography (I recently saw some nice example of „improved“ victorian images), and photoshop has been a thing for more than 3 decades by now.
Maybe AI actually teaches people to not blindly believe everything they see online, as they should have done all along. But I would not hold my breath.
Show threadElizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾May 3, 2023
@peter @BethGMS Yes, but they can't produce at mass volume. AI can - that's the problem!
There will be such a flood people and organisations won't be able to stem the flood.
I just see a time when there will be content ecosystems that humans will develop for humans, and AI content completely banned.
Show threadPeter WeilnböckMay 3, 2023
@liztai @BethGMS maybe.
But because of the number of people already interacting and creating stuff, I would think we already have a mostly uncontrolled flood of garbage, drowning out the worthwhile things, unless you filter for it (yay manual timeline, boo algorithm. Yay RSS Feeds, etc.)
AI will increase the garbage to ignore, but truly change the need for curation of content to consume? At least for me: probably not.
But: everybody uses the web differently, so the experience will vary as well.
Show threadBeth PMay 3, 2023
@peter @liztai there's also the potential for video deepfakes, with voiced audio, that are truly indistinguishable from real footage -- already poor quality images of Drumpf "being arrested" had some corners of the web riled a matter of weeks ago. There are new possibilities, from artificial (but realistic) nonconsensual pr*n to videos of POTUS. The point about volume is also a good one. I do like the idea of humans-only content bastions, though, given my bias as a human who creates content. 😊
Show threadElizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾May 3, 2023
@BethGMS @peter There are already deep fakes on Youtube - very disturbing
Show threadPeter WeilnböckMay 3, 2023
@liztai @BethGMS I agree with both of you on the deepfakes. So far faking Video in a believable way was out of reach.
Therefore video needs the same scrutiny as text and images in the future, which will take some adjustment…
(And with scrutiny I mean more the source, since it becomes increasingly difficult to differentiate the material on its own)