The AI era promises a flood of disinformation, deepfakes, and hallucinated “facts.” Psychologists are only beginning to grapple with the implications.
  • gmatkins@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    This article is making an alarmist case against AI by comparing it to technologies that also didn’t fundamentally change human life. “In the same way you might use Google Maps to get everywhere and not know how to get there otherwise…”, but GPS nav didn’t ruin our ability to drive. It just makes driving more convenient.

    If anything, the presence of AI generated fakes will make face-to-face interactions more valuable. Our most trusted source of news will be the people we trust and interact with directly. That’s not a new and horrifying condition for humanity. It’s how we always live.

  • BurningnnTree@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    “In the same way you might use Google Maps to get everywhere and not know how to get there otherwise, AI might cause people to stop learning things they would have otherwise had to learn. Ironically, though, Rosen thinks this could cause more stress as people are inundated with AI and constantly shifting gears and not seeing anything quite clearly.”

    This is one of the most concerning aspects of AI IMO. Learning and thinking are some of the most fundamental aspects of being human. When you can outsource thinking to a machine, how is that going to affect your sense of self worth? How are we going to keep kids motivated to learn in school, when they know that they’ll never be able to learn things as well as AI can?

    • Laconic@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      I don’t understand why they’re trying to feed AI everything. There’s too much garbage on the internet and elsewhere. If they can’t make a good LLM with academic articles, Wikipedia, and non fiction books, newspapers, and magazines then they need to go back to the drawing board.

  • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    No one is, picture the following.
    You have a friend you talk to online, you’ve never met in real life but you talk online every day. Oneday that connection is severed, you never know it but a bot trained on all the data from your conversations is now talking to you instead, and the inverse has happened to your friend. You’re now both talking to bots of eachother designed to seem just like the real thing while slowly influencing you towards whatever mode of thinking is desireable by the owner of the platform.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    This has nothing at all to do with AI, we’re already living in a world filled with misinformation. AI doesn’t fundamentally change anything. The reality is that people come up with narratives they want to believe in, and then seek out information that fits in with those narratives.