The rise of generative AI is the death of picture or video evidence.
No one to date knows what the real consequences of this will be. Call me crazy, but maybe we shouldn’t be allowing people to work on such “advances” if they don’t have the humanities/social sciences background to understand the consequences.
Hint: photo and video evidence has only been a thing for less than 200 years when photos and videos were invented. So if humanity managed without it before that, it can do so again.
The rise of generative AI is the death of picture or video evidence.
And the written word, as useful information is buried under mountains of generated trash.
No one to date knows what the real consequences of this will be.
Dark Ages II
Call me crazy, but maybe we shouldn’t be allowing people to work on such “advances” if they don’t have the humanities/social sciences background to understand the consequences.
Consequences be damned! We have quarterly earnings reports to worry about!
Much the same was said about the printing press, common people with the power to publish and distribute ideas would be the end of civilisation. It wasn’t, humanity has always lived fast and loose with its power for invention outstripping its ability to manage it. Comes from the selective pressures on us, find a way to survive now and worry about the long term effects later. Of course it will probably catch up with us one day.
The printing press was a tremendously disruptive technology. I’d say it supports what I’m saying, not the other way around. It has the benefit of several hundred years of unconnected people.
I’ll add: it’s disingenuous to think that generative AI and the printing press do the same things. The latter enhanced the spread of information. The former enhances the spread of misinformation. Such is the nature of LLMs.
The rise of generative AI is the death of picture or video evidence.
No one to date knows what the real consequences of this will be. Call me crazy, but maybe we shouldn’t be allowing people to work on such “advances” if they don’t have the humanities/social sciences background to understand the consequences.
Hint: photo and video evidence has only been a thing for less than 200 years when photos and videos were invented. So if humanity managed without it before that, it can do so again.
And the written word, as useful information is buried under mountains of generated trash.
Dark Ages II
Consequences be damned! We have quarterly earnings reports to worry about!
Much the same was said about the printing press, common people with the power to publish and distribute ideas would be the end of civilisation. It wasn’t, humanity has always lived fast and loose with its power for invention outstripping its ability to manage it. Comes from the selective pressures on us, find a way to survive now and worry about the long term effects later. Of course it will probably catch up with us one day.
The printing press was a tremendously disruptive technology. I’d say it supports what I’m saying, not the other way around. It has the benefit of several hundred years of unconnected people.
I’ll add: it’s disingenuous to think that generative AI and the printing press do the same things. The latter enhanced the spread of information. The former enhances the spread of misinformation. Such is the nature of LLMs.