Humans aren’t mentally ready for an AI-saturated ‘post-truth world’
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Re: Humans aren’t mentally ready for an AI-saturated ‘post-truth world’
#2The church had the same complaints when the printing press undermined their monopoly on Truth. However, it's now clear that the technology gave rise to the renaissance, and the greatest discovery and propagation of truth that humanity has ever seen.
Re: Humans aren’t mentally ready for an AI-saturated ‘post-truth world’
#3We don't need AI for that, people believe all kinds of crap and honestly sometimes rightly so because goverments all over the world have become really unrealiable in the information they give out. As an example of this, my goverment just recently updated the recommended food intake because they want to lower our emissions. Perhaps the goal itself is nice but that shouldn't imo have any effect on whatever foods are healthy or not for you. The result is that their food recommendations cannot be trusted anymore and you start doubting if other communication from the same authority can be trusted?
The problem with many AI shops is that they are already biased which has been shown on many occations so I believe many will not trust in their AI-companion. GPS data doesn't try to shove some political opinion down your throat and it has historically worked very well over many years so that is the reason why everyone trusts it.
Re: Humans aren’t mentally ready for an AI-saturated ‘post-truth world’
#4We may not be ready but we may as well get ready. I would strongly prefer to work with skeptical people again. Skeptics can be convinced, they just need evidence.
Although I am genuinely intrigued by AI running out of things to ingest, and moving onto AI generated content. Is the snake starting to eat its tail?
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#5> Michael Graziano, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Princeton University, says he thinks AI could create a “post-truth world.” He says it will likely make it significantly easier to convince people of false narratives, which will be disruptive in many ways
Significantly easier? I would have thought that it would get harder to convince people of anything.
Re: Humans aren’t mentally ready for an AI-saturated ‘post-truth world’
#6We don't need AI for that, people believe all kinds of crap and honestly sometimes rightly so because goverments all over the world have become really unrealiable in the information they give out. As an example of this, my goverment just recently updated the recommended food intake because they want to lower our emissions. Perhaps the goal itself is nice but that shouldn't imo have any effect on whatever foods are he…
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#7I don't think we're mentally ready for social media, even.
What something like Twitter can inflict on a person when it goes wrong is absolutely unprecedented, and we still haven't adapted to it.
Think that for instance going to the cinema, watching a movie, walking out and venting to a friend "Boy, this one sucked. $ACTOR_NAME did a really bad job with this one" is a perfectly normal thing to do.
But move that to Twitter and it can become part of a years-long torrent of hate highly visible to that single person. Even if what you think you're doing is communicating with your 10 friends. A retweet, a hashtag, or just the algorithm can magically make your comment part of an online mob.
Re: Humans aren’t mentally ready for an AI-saturated ‘post-truth world’
#8The church had the same complaints when the printing press undermined their monopoly on Truth. However, it's now clear that the technology gave rise to the renaissance, and the greatest discovery and propagation of truth that humanity has ever seen.
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#9We may not be ready but we may as well get ready. I would strongly prefer to work with skeptical people again. Skeptics can be convinced, they just need evidence. Although I am genuinely intrigued by AI running out of things to ingest, and moving onto AI generated content. Is the snake starting to eat its tail?
How are we going to provide that evidence? And make sure that evidence is actually true, instead of AI generated? Send them a link to a wiki page that has been mutated by an AI bot updating it? ;-)
Re: Humans aren’t mentally ready for an AI-saturated ‘post-truth world’
#10We may not be ready but we may as well get ready. I would strongly prefer to work with skeptical people again. Skeptics can be convinced, they just need evidence. Although I am genuinely intrigued by AI running out of things to ingest, and moving onto AI generated content. Is the snake starting to eat its tail?
I wonder if the rise of skepticism will actually lead to people decreasing their use of the internet. Once the internet is full of crap (like 1000x what it currently is) and everyone realizes nothing is real, or can be trusted. Will people turn away, and start reading books and talking to neighbors again. Could the new renaissance be talking to other humans again, because face-to-face personal contact would be only form that can be trusted to be real.