[dpflan]

The technology is indeed powerful; it's pretty obvious you can make military grade or better propaganda pretty easily with this technology and disseminate it more easily. Let's just classify that as "misinformation" generally, which could also be applied to ideas of teenagers making deepfakes of classmates, etc. So misinformation is a big risk, and already affecting society. It is also clearly useful to whomever is creating the content for whatever their means or ends may be.

There are definitely use-cases being worked out for this technology, and the people who are developing these are using this technology on a daily basis (or creating it); their proximity to the technology and gain in understanding of it probably is helping them realize how this could be truly subversive and an existential threat.

[malfist]

What is "military grade propaganda"?

[pixl97]

https://www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Marine-Corps-University-Press...

[dpflan]

Propaganda is a crucial part of the military; there are even divisions in modern militaries whose sole job is create propaganda/misinformation. This material is clearly deemed of some quality or grade that would deem it possible effective against a target. Given that it is the job of these departments to influence the information and human psychological "playing fields", then I would give that context a label of "military grade" -- in that it is as powerful as information warfare techniques used by entities whose sole job it is to engage effectively in information warfare.

[hooverd]

That's funny, I always thought military grade meant overpriced and underbuilt.