Technology

59123 readers

2299 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

199

Defence force top brass shares fears about AI causing 'truth decay' (inqld.com.au)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

16 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Defence force top brass shares fears about AI causing 'truth decay'::Australia's defence force chief General Angus Campbell has warned artificial intelligence might harm democracies through "truth decay," as people are unable to distinguish fact from fiction.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And it will only get worse

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, it will remain about the same. People will develop AI to combat AI and in the end we'll still be bumbling about our days, believing whatever makes us feel all warm and tickly inside.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think the landscape will be our current one but wildly exaggerated once convincing video fakes are cheaply available.

Even with AI spotting/detecting fakes, conspiracy minded folks will just dismiss those AI detections as tech/government/media suppressing the truth. Similarly, actual events can be dismissed as AI edited for the same reasons.

While this sort of exists for text already, people rarely fact check memes/ideas and video is a hell of a lot more convincing.