2025-10-25 16:12 UTC
#AI is going to kill us, but not in the typical scifi way: robots with laserguns or control over nuclear bombs
That's too flashy. It will be far more mundane
It's going to kill us via the firehose of falsehood
The tricky part:
The problem is not making people believe lies
The problem is making us so cynical, we disbelieve truth
In a world where nothing is trusted as true, and only bias remains, this will lead us down familiar societal paths of mob "truth" over real trusted evidence
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@benroyce@mastodon.social 2025-10-25 16:19
Look at this picture What do you see? Context: The picture blew up on social media because it depicts police outside the Louvre, which experienced a spectacular theft of Napoleonic jewels, which seems like a detail right out of Hercule Poirot or Arsène Lupin or Sherlock Holmes... and so... et voila... the frisson of this picture is remarkable Is the picture real? Or is it #AI? 2/x