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Preparing for Malicious Uses of AI

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Re: Preparing for Malicious Uses of AI

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You can have 1000 of companies that act fair and don't use AI for malicious purposes, but there it that one company or community that doesn't... and then someone sends you gay porn with your face in it.

I'm not too worried about that. The moment that type of technology becomes widely available is the moment this type of blackmail loses all edge. You might even actually start doing gay porn IRL and people will assume that it's been "deepfaked".

The corollary is a little more worrying: any kind of incriminating document about a politician or public figure will be dismissed as a fake immediately. I mean, they already do that, but that'll be even harder to figure out what's real and what's not.

That "grab them by the pussy" tape? Obviously fake. I mean, you don't even see the guy talking, just the audio, how gullible can you be?

That girl running away from the napalm bombing? Obviously fake. I mean you're going to tell me that all of her clothes burned but she's still fit enough to run? Everybody around her wears clothes. Come on man, are you new here?

That chinese guy standing in front of a military tank with groceries? Come on, I can do a more convincing fake in 10 seconds on my smartphone. There, look, I just did.

We have a brave new world ahead of us where you won't be able to trust anything you see or hear through any media, no matter how convincing it seems. That's pretty terrifying IMO.

I remember a while ago stumbling upon a conspiracy theory forum where people were claiming that a video of an interview with Julian Assange was a fake because there were a few strange visual artifacts around his face sometimes. Given that the quality of the video was very good and the oddities were rather minor (possibly encoding artifacts) I dismissed it as the usual tinfoil hattery.

I think in the future I won't be so sure anymore. I'm not sure if the technology to make such a good quality fake already exists but it's probably a matter of years before we get there. If some people with too much time on their hands manage to make somewhat convincing porn montages for free on the internet what can big three letter agencies do? What does the state of the art look like? What will it look like 10 years from now?

Re: Preparing for Malicious Uses of AI

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It may be superfluous to point this out but this seems to be talking about malicious uses of narrow AI, rather than malicious strong AI. The only defense against a malicious strong AI is, of course, a friendly strong AI.

Re: Preparing for Malicious Uses of AI

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post #2

You can have 1000 of companies that act fair and don't use AI for malicious purposes, but there it that one company or community that doesn't... and then someone sends you gay porn with your face in it.

Wow, you summed up the dangers of AI so concisely!

Imature Joke in 3 .. 2 .. 1 .. Pentrationtest.

Hey- at least i brought a keg of beer.

PS: 1. Policymakers should collaborate closely with technical researchers to investigate, prevent, and mitigate potential malicious uses of AI.

I never knew that research in Security was so deeply underfunded, that you had to write pleas into a paper. Jobsecurity research - its really that dangerous.

Re: Preparing for Malicious Uses of AI

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Reading this makes me think it's the opening to a sci-fi movie. Sure is damn scary that it's actual fact. I wonder how much of society will deny AI just like they are with human generated climate change?

The difference is we don't need AI. We need the planet.

I wonder if we really don't need AI. It's not like we have amazing ideas on how to save the planet and reverse global warming realistically. Sure, there _are_ ideas but the costs seem comically high.

Maybe AI could help us do that, and make cold fusion work while it's at it ;-) [I'm only half joking, actually]

Re: Preparing for Malicious Uses of AI

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I find it quite funny, rather intruiging, that we seem to have gone full circle on trusted sources of information. Historically, a face-to-face meeting was considered as the ultimate legitimate and trustworthy way. Not story or rumors or witnessing, since the courts say people can be "decieved", "traumatised", etc. Then came microphones, cameras, CCTV in the 20th century, and then they became the ultimate trusted sources of information.

And due to AI and it's rapidly increasing misuse by enormous conglomerates, it will be very soon when videos are never trusted but rather treated as comedic rumor and folklore, and we will go back again to how it always was.

...until replicants come.

I'm saddened that there are actual "smart" people who waste their days to work on these malicious forms of AI, be it Google's almost entire arsenal, or anything. However, i'm not surprised they do, but it is still sad.

Re: Preparing for Malicious Uses of AI

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post #4

Reading this makes me think it's the opening to a sci-fi movie. Sure is damn scary that it's actual fact. I wonder how much of society will deny AI just like they are with human generated climate change?

The difference is we don't need AI. We need the planet.

We need AI to keep the planet.

Re: Preparing for Malicious Uses of AI

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I find it quite funny, rather intruiging, that we seem to have gone full circle on trusted sources of information. Historically, a face-to-face meeting was considered as the ultimate legitimate and trustworthy way. Not story or rumors or witnessing, since the courts say people can be "decieved", "traumatised", etc. Then came microphones, cameras, CCTV in the 20th century, and then they became the ultimate trusted sou…

There is and will be a place for strong crypto for trust, however probably not on standard commodity hardware.
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