Are You Ready For the Botpocalypse?
Added 2024-06-10 23:12:19 +0000 UTCSee you in 2027!
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I am over 70 and have excessively traveled the planet and I am keen on history. You are correct Fran. It is so very very important to pay attention to the past and how it relates to the future and to stay current to local and world events.
Donald J Arndt
2024-06-11 21:22:57 +0000 UTCIt strikes me that one of the things that bot creators are after is similar to what graffiti artists are looking to find. Namely, a canvas that can not easily be ignored.
Bill Lee
2024-06-11 18:18:49 +0000 UTCAnd I have a copy of that broadcast which clearly shows that every 10 minutes or so they announce that it is a dramatic reading of H.G. Wells' War Of The Worlds... People had to be daft!
Fran Blanche
2024-06-11 12:05:05 +0000 UTCWorking on that.
Fran Blanche
2024-06-11 12:03:55 +0000 UTCThe concerns surrounding the printing press were not disinformation but information and knowledge itself being dispersed. That shake-up had to do with control of education, literacy, and knowledge, which was limited at that time to the clergy and the aristocracy.
Fran Blanche
2024-06-11 12:03:16 +0000 UTCI want you to play more guitar! You can tell I ain’t no bot!
Ethan
2024-06-11 09:27:17 +0000 UTC5:35 This reminds me of the audiance reaction to the radio show "War of the Worlds". That was of course long before the internet.
Bart de Boisblanc
2024-06-11 02:57:56 +0000 UTCWhat's that old saying about the difference between truth and lies? Paraphrasing: A lie can can travel a couple of miles down the road in the time it takes the truth to put on its shoes. Well now it's more like a lie has been strapped to a hypersonic missile and circled the earth a few times while the truth is putting on its shoes. Maybe if we're lucky, whatever the first major global disaster that is the result of AI propaganda will be serious enough, but not too damaging so that humanity can see how bad it is and enough people will be emboldened to take the necessary action to solve the problem in a collective fashion. However it's more likely that the Botpocalypse will be insidiously slow-moving enough that by the time humanity accepts that a problem even exists, it will be too late to do anything about it.
Mark Hesse
2024-06-11 01:15:02 +0000 UTCI was just thinking about disinformation earlier today. It is a double-bitted axe. Learn how to manipulate platforms to rank your discourse slightly above the noise floor, and soon enough, the AI-driven data monster takes over, and voila! Anything contrary becomes misinformation, and aggressively quashed.
Drewski Brewski
2024-06-11 00:45:42 +0000 UTCI think there were similar concerns about books and misinformation after the advent of the printing press. The technology changes but the underlying concerns don't.
Steve
2024-06-10 23:35:27 +0000 UTC
