| >> spam the internet with thousands and thousands of souless generated videos Unfortunately, that's already happening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7oiHtYCo0w From what I can see, YouTube has done quite a bit of work to cleanup YouTube Kids, but it's kind of an arms race. There's this worrying issue in AI ethics discussions where most people seem to assume the problems and dangers of AI are still off in the future, that as long as we don't have the malicious AGI of sci-fi stories, then AI and "lesser" algorithmically generated content isn't harming society. I think that's not true at all. I think we've seen massive damage to social structures thanks to algorithmic feeds and generated content, already, for years now. I don't think, just because they aren't necessarily neural-network-based, doesn't make them something to not worry about. So I don't see AI as a particularly, different, worrisome problem. It's an extension of an already existing, worrisome problem that most people have ignored beyond occasionally complaining about election results. |