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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

AI makes it worse though. People will read a website they find on Google that someone wrote and say, "well that's just what some guy thinks." But when an AI says it, those same people think it's authoritative. And now that they can talk, including with believable simulations of emotional vocal inflections, it's going to get far, far worse.

Humans evolved to process auditory communications. We did not evolve to be able to read. So we tend to trust what we hear a lot more than we trust what we read. And companies like OpenAI are taking full advantage of that.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Jokes on you. Volume is always off on my phone, so I read the ai.

Also, I don't actually ever use the ai.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am not worried about people here on Lemmy. I am worried about people who don't know much about computers at all. i.e. the majority of the public. They think computers are magic. This will make it far worse.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I don’t think those people are still the majority in 20 years…

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

20 years? Do you know how much damage can be done in 20 years?

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

How old are you that 20 years is not so long?

And also, why does that matter that it's not so long? Have you even bothered noticing all the damage Trump has done in under a month?

His administration just fired a bunch of people responsible for keeping U.S. nuclear weapons secure without knowing what their jobs were.

Less than one month.