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by gjvnq 1258 days ago
1. The growth of deep fake porn might lead us down a path where revenge porn no longer "works" as people know that for every real nude leaked there are like 10'000 fake ones.

2. Stylometrics AI gets so good that the only way to remain anonymous/private is to follow boring writing manuals thus killing a lot of creative writing of sensitive topics.

3. People spending so much time online that neighbours can barely talk to each other as they use the same words in subtly different meanings. We tradicionally saw this happening with people of different professions (e.g. law speak is very different from doctor speak). But having this phenomenon happening for every single fandom or microlabel can lead us to a lot of political troubles as votres can't reach common ground.

4. Companies will start storing fake data on their servers so as to minimize the value of the data for cybercriminals.