If there’s one thing AI is getting good at, it’s lying
Thank you for summing up the key reason that AI bothers me, giving words to the off-putting feeling in my gut whenever I think about it.
Theft, attacking artistic integrity, energy-consumption, these are all things I’ve heard and seen people say against it. But the simple fact is that AI is a liar, and it’s muddying the line between truth and fiction in a way that no propaganda can match. It’s insidious, it’s powerful, and it’s everywhere. It sprung up in a time and place where reality was already under attack and poured fuel onto the fire of rampant disinformation.
worse than a liar; a liar makes you doubt everything the liar says, but generally you don’t lose faith in all information as a result of one person being full of shit.
AI doesn’t just lie, it lies often enough, convincingly enough, and is ubiquitous enough now that it dilutes the truth and makes everyone (like OP) question harder the validity of everything they see – or, more easily, start believing in nothing outright.
LLMs are neat tools, if very flawed ones, but image/video genAI is a fucking Torment Nexus that should not have been made.
Thank you for summing up the key reason that AI bothers me, giving words to the off-putting feeling in my gut whenever I think about it.
Theft, attacking artistic integrity, energy-consumption, these are all things I’ve heard and seen people say against it. But the simple fact is that AI is a liar, and it’s muddying the line between truth and fiction in a way that no propaganda can match. It’s insidious, it’s powerful, and it’s everywhere. It sprung up in a time and place where reality was already under attack and poured fuel onto the fire of rampant disinformation.
worse than a liar; a liar makes you doubt everything the liar says, but generally you don’t lose faith in all information as a result of one person being full of shit.
AI doesn’t just lie, it lies often enough, convincingly enough, and is ubiquitous enough now that it dilutes the truth and makes everyone (like OP) question harder the validity of everything they see – or, more easily, start believing in nothing outright.
LLMs are neat tools, if very flawed ones, but image/video genAI is a fucking Torment Nexus that should not have been made.