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by jijijijij 812 days ago
While time will tell, if "AI" brings us a beneficial application, you can safely bet against a lot of industries, since the destructive uses are already proven. So far AI excels only in human mimicry, which strongly enables abuse and exploitation, but has little legitimate value.

Spam and fishing will break basically everything without authentication. Youtube and Google search are already half broken because of AI spam. Dating Apps will break, comment sections will break, the web is gonna break for the most part... Not looking good for classic telecommunication either, since you can't trust messages and calls anymore.
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mickeyfrac 812 days ago
Education, data analysis and coding are applications showing real benefits, especially as supplementaries to the existing practices.

I think spam is a problem that will be fixed due to it's importance. There are real potential uses of blockchain technology here. I'm super interested in how the banking system KYC stack could be used in conjunction with NFTs to provide proof of factual claims.

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SJC_Hacker 811 days ago
Alot of dating apps, especially Tinder, are already broken. The number of legit profiles vs. the number of fake ones is probably like 10-1. Zoosk at least tries.
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