356 sats \ 5 replies \ @freetx 27 Mar \ on: Reality Is Just a Game Now BooksAndArticles
AI is going to amply this by 1000x
There will be complete fictional "news" reports, with all elements (including backstory historical references) which are completely AI generated. These will be composed to satisfy each target demographics viewpoint.
So the haters of Trump will get news reports showing his extensive connection to Nazi germany (along with AI generated Wikipedia links). These will include AI generated video and interviews. Admissions of guilt, testimony from court cases, etc.
Likewise a similar playbook will exist against Obama, except this time showing that it is Obama supporters (his stay-behind network) that are generating these fake "Trump is a Nazi" reports. These too will be completely fabricated by AI.
The final end-goal will be a society in which it is impossible to determine what is real - and further - a society in which every single thing said is completely fabricated.
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174 sats \ 2 replies \ @elvismercury OP 27 Mar
I think that's right, and was just talking to my wife about it last night. Here's the optimistic thought that I gave to her: all of this has happened before.
The foundational institutions, and critical cultural practices of society, are always upended around significant technological revolutions. The printing press, which we think of as an amazing creation of almost Platonic virtue, imploded people's lives and introduced massive death, carnage, and upheaval into the world.
And then, over decades and centuries, the world adapted to the new forces that had been set free. The same will happen again; and given the pace of change, it's possible we won't have to all crawl through blood and shit to get there.
My wife did not find the comfort in it that I had hoped for, however.
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37 sats \ 1 reply \ @freetx 27 Mar
Yes we will muddle our way thru this.
Personally, I think that "God" will make big come back. When faced with a very low-trust world, people will go back to the primacy of spiritual belief, since it transcends mere human truth.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 27 Mar
Hopefully but I think it will be small comeback
I hope I am wrong
First time for everything
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @chungkingexpress 27 Mar
The only thing you will be able to trust is what your Bitcoin node says.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 27 Mar
Seems deliberate 🧐😎
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