I’m in the camp that’s very skeptical of artificial intelligence. Granted, I was already mostly dismissing everything I read online whether it was through Facebook posts, Twitter, etc. Before I ask this next question, it’s important to clarify that AI is obviously still in its infancy stages and it’s not always hard to discern what’s fake but… is there anything AI can’t do? That’s the frightful question at the forefront of my mind when anyone talks about AI nowadays. It became so much more clear to me in the aftermath of the Coldplay cheating scandal. Here’s the original video of the pair caught at the Coldplay concert. And then I’ll include another one with a few AI creations. Take notice of how realistic the fake videos are, not perfect of course, but very close.
We’re already heading in a direction I don’t like at all. Soon there will be video or audio of everyone saying everything. At that point, we can’t believe anything. That is, unless we see it or hear it for ourselves in person, verified, and documented. These are the crazy times.
For instance, can you imagine the field day scammers are going to have with the incredible capabilities of AI at their disposal? What they’re already doing is sickening but if a Nigerian prince actually sends me a video and explains why he needs to deposit a thousand dollars in my account, and he mentions me by name and has a member of my bank call me to verify, how can I say no?
Seriously though, what’s going to keep someone from destroying the reputation of someone they don’t like, just because they can? Maybe the time we live in now, this very moment, can be a turning point for all of us. Use less social media? Post less photos and videos of ourselves, making it less likely to be manipulated? I don’t have the answer and maybe we’re already past the point of no return. Not to get all religious on you, but the longer I live and the more I experience, the more I believe Jesus came at the exact perfect time. In today’s media-saturated world, with hackers, liars, and especially with AI now, no one would believe someone like him existed or could do the things he was recorded in the Bible doing. They’d just say it’s all fake. Which, kind of oddly, is what they said 2000 years ago, too.
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