Who gets to enjoy all “the fruits of our labor”?
Not us. Not the majority. Not the workers whom we are supposedly celebrating today.
Like, what is the reason for widely available deepfake technology to exist?
Why should random people be able to make convincing faked images and videos of the pope, a president, a supermodel, or you and me?
Why on earth is this software a thing that anyone thought was a good idea to make? What legitimate use does it actually have? I honestly can't think of any application of this tech as harmless. It's just reality distortion becoming quickly shareable. It's a nightmare.
More and more I am convinced that there is absolutely no reasonable use for this technology, and the catastrophic danger of it far outweighs any possible benefit.
We're irrevocably poisoning how people perceive reality in exchange for a party trick.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/22/24225972/ai-photo-era-what-is-reality-google-pixel-9
The fact that:
1. This election is between a black female cop and a 34-time convicted white male felon
2. Almost every police union supports the felon
Should tell you everything you need to know about who the police really serve.
This thing falls apart on California freeways, does anyone anywhere think it's going to last more than fifteen minutes in an actual warzone, even if it is not immediately targeted as the most obvious thing to shoot at
https://gizmodo.com/militarized-cybertrucks-are-here-2000488469