• @[email protected]
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    1286 months ago

    Both of those sound kinda dystopian. Because you just know the first one will start getting gamed by every company from the grocery companies trying to SEO the AI, to the big fossil fuel companies trying to get you to drive your car more.

    • FaceDeer
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      396 months ago

      How is making a picture of me as an astronaut “dystopian”?

      • @[email protected]
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        486 months ago

        The same technology can be used for widespread, low-cost, highly convincing misinformation and propaganda campaigns

        • @[email protected]
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          86 months ago

          The moon landing wasn’t faked, but I was there instead of Neil Armstrong. See these pics?

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            36 months ago

            You think the world will be better when literally anyone can create convincing misinformation and propaganda? Personally I prefer when that power is limited, even if there are still powerful entities that can do it

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                36 months ago

                I think everything gets better when it’s less centralized

                Would it be better if everyone had access to nuclear weapons? Or biohazards?

                Some things in this world, the fewer people that have access to them, the better. In a perfect world, we might have nobody have access to those things, but I’ll settle for few rather than many.

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                    56 months ago

                    It’s not a straw man. My point was that some things should not be completely democratized and have zero barrier to entry. You need a license to drive a car or buy a gun (in the civilized parts of the world anyway), so why should you be able to mass produce psychological warfare materials to sow disinformation without any friction or barrier to entry?

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        36 months ago

        Uses tons of energy which could ironically be used to get you to space for real (a lot more energy but at least you get a real experience).

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      216 months ago

      I can’t wait for the technology to get basic enough where I can roll my own self hosted instance of it without it taking months. Because I can see a way it’s doable without a centralized service to get around that. But for mass consumer level, I can see that becoming true. But this can be applied to every bit of software currently. All of it can be ran by you, if you have time. Hell I’ve got my own cloud (hosted at my home ) music streaming service.

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      156 months ago

      In other words, we need to recognize that the real problem is that companies will always try to game the system for product differentiation/market segmentation purposes, so the real solution is for the government to create and enforce standards.