of totally fake AI generated videos supposedly of Pope Leo giving sermons he never gave and saying things he hasn't said. I get a lot of "catholic" as well as Catholic content foisted on me by several sites algorithms in the languages I do searches in and I've seen them in English, French and Spanish so far.
I hope that someone as internet savvy as Leo assigns a couple of People at the Vatican to get on that because if the comments on such fake videos are anything to go by, they will be a major burden to his papacy as they, in fact, are in every area of activity online and, so, in real life.
This is a real danger for reality being what determines human culture. It didn't start with AI or even the internet but both of those have made things worse by an enormous factor.
Maybe that a part of his already stated concerns with AI. Not just abstract, but concrete, IOW.
ReplyDeleteI hope so. I hope they find a way to stop it or defeat it, mere mitigation won't be enough. I get the feeling that the "AI" generators don't even bother to listen to what they produce, some of it is so clearly AI generated as to be a dead giveaway, though apparently many are suckered even as that evidence is clear as could be. It is extremely dangerous and "more speech" won't defeat it.
DeleteAI right now is mostly shit being promoted by Tech Bros who don’t want to be BetaMax or MySpace, but have sold all they can sell on Facebook or Twitter or Google. So far it’s certainly artificial and hardly counts as intelligent.
ReplyDeleteI sometimes wonder how the credulous faith that what they're making is "intelligence" is related to their credulous faith that consciousness is nothing but an epiphenomenon of molecular chemistry. I think it is based in that ideological stand going back far into cybernetics. I haven't looked into it but there is a remarkably large literature about the link between cybernetics and Marxist materialism. The opening paragraph of Mark Vernon's essay about Blake's warnings about the danger of natural philosophy came to me at a time I was especially sensitive to that message. Hope I get to read the book when it's published.
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