A.I. imagery may destroy history as we know it
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A.I. imagery may destroy history as we know it
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Re: A.I. imagery may destroy history as we know it
#2Faking images to try and change history is as old as Stalin:
https://www.history.com/news/josef-stalin-great-purge-photo-...
Re: A.I. imagery may destroy history as we know it
#3> The hands are often a tell-tale sign of the incompetence of an A.I. program.
Curiously prescient: it was the hands of the robots in the original film, Westworld (1973), that were a tell-tale sign that they were not living.
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#4Faking images to try and change history is as old as Stalin: https://www.history.com/news/josef-stalin-great-purge-photo-...
No, it's way, way older. As in "Hapsburg portraits" and "Ming Dynasty scrolls" old.
And let's not forget the last time a technology came around that could "fool history"; how many people still believe the moon landing was shot on a sound stage?
The notion that historians only care about images, without caring about their provenance, is absurd.
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#5Some people feel threatened by AI because it makes their skills or creations seem outdated, and they blame AI for their problems. They see AI as the enemy. It's hard for them to accept, but AI is here to stay. Eventually, they will have to come to terms with it. Once they let go of their pride and stop focusing on the wrong things, everyone will realize the incredible benefits AI can offer humanity. It's worrisome that some individuals would rather hold onto their own importance than embrace the potential of AI to help everyone. This mindset is unfortunate.
Re: A.I. imagery may destroy history as we know it
#6Some people feel threatened by AI because it makes their skills or creations seem outdated, and they blame AI for their problems. They see AI as the enemy. It's hard for them to accept, but AI is here to stay. Eventually, they will have to come to terms with it. Once they let go of their pride and stop focusing on the wrong things, everyone will realize the incredible benefits AI can offer humanity. It's worrisome th…
You've begun the conversation, but what is the next step? You've identified that people feel threatened. Why do you think that is? It strikes me that pride is rarely a defensive response. What are the things they should be focusing on? In a system defined by one's ability to capitalize on one's individual importance, what less unfortunate mindset should be taken?
Re: A.I. imagery may destroy history as we know it
#7Faking images to try and change history is as old as Stalin: https://www.history.com/news/josef-stalin-great-purge-photo-...
That's like comparing horse and carriage to a modern day truck though, no? This can be fully automated, generating photoreal content on its own. You couldn't airbrush a photo via a cron job like how you can now automate some model generating thousands of images of people rioting/looting for authoritarian purposes. Who will go through the effort of verifying every one of them? Other language models with precision issues?
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#8Let me get my broken record out to say that "trust" in certain institutions, as well as cryptographic signing, will become even more indispensable over time. Webs of trust where items and documents are signed by trusted organizations to be authentic/unaltered, since we won't be able to trust our eyes or ears.
Re: A.I. imagery may destroy history as we know it
#9Let me get my broken record out to say that "trust" in certain institutions, as well as cryptographic signing, will become even more indispensable over time. Webs of trust where items and documents are signed by trusted organizations to be authentic/unaltered, since we won't be able to trust our eyes or ears.
How will you know the crypto hasn't been broken by "AI"?
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#10We've been living in the (golden age?) of crowdsourced information for a while now.
AI-generated content at scale (especially if it has marketing dollars behind it trying to influence future models) may well cause a resurgence of curated / authenticated information services.