• a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    It’s literally the perfect business model, like the one refined by ad-based mobile game companies, but even easier.

    Agents troll for the news. Agents right up the news. It’s fed to a video agent that reads the news. No need for human intervention. No need for any pesky slowdowns. Everything is ready in moments from the moment it happens.

    Unfortunately, we’re going to lose integrity, accuracy, and virtually everything else that we need in the news source.

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        4 days ago

        I mean literally everyone will. All media will become a cesspool of magnificently curated garbage. That’s going to transcend national boundaries.

        Honestly, I think you’d be right at home here. You’re sort of one of us now.

        What you’re saying is almost verbatim Trump’s fans claiming that they voted for him and will endure whatever pain he dishes out just to own the libs.

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        4 days ago

        Okay, now broaden your conclusions. Imagine the level of distrust is even earned because we don’t know what to fucking think. Because everywhere we look, there’s a different message.

        I get this mark, but I think that you’re underestimating the damage that we’re going to be seeing in the very near term.

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          Good point. With AI news we’ll be able to trust it more because the message will be consistent across multiple sources and delivered reliably, compellingly, with conviction, and targeted to the current desires, fears and prejudices of the viewer. All of this will help to maintain a sense of trust, and shape your worldview.

          Human beings are, for the most part, not mentally equipped to deal with this. We already see a significant part of the population lost in constructed realities. That’s the tip of the iceberg.