Is Artificial Intelligence (AI) Cursed? It seems to be accelerating us towards a dystopia that humanity is not ready for.
It is true that AI is having a positive impact on some people. Twitter hustlers are providing endless new AI tools and endless content about useless ChatGPT prompts that can be used to edit threads for shilling newsletters. More importantly, AI helps streamline information and in some cases is being used to detect cancer.
But many are choosing to use AI to create content (and sometimes entire businesses) around what science fiction has warned us about.
Murdered children remade for brutal TikTok
“My dad put me in the washing machine and put me in the spin dryer and it killed me,” says an AI-powered toddler in one TikTok video. He stands in front of a washing machine and tells the hauntingly terrifying true story of a 3-year-old who was murdered in 2011.
This is the worst use of generative AI. A true crime-loving ghoul, he occasionally uses deepfakes of murdered children to create a TikTok that details how the children were killed.
Thousands of similar videos plaguing TikTok, in which AI-generated children’s voices and images hilariously illustrate “their” gruesome murders. Some are delusional enough to think that the video “glorifies” the victims.
Thankfully, not all videos depict real victims, but some do, despite TikTok’s ban on youth deepfakes.
The video highlights a story worth telling to a younger audience, and while some might argue that longer content doesn’t keep them focused, such “real crime” media is , in any case, it is often exploitative.
Is the AI already trying to kill the operator?
If there is any skepticism about the recent statements of Colonel Tucker Hamilton, the United States Air Force (USAF) Chief of AI Testing, AI is ruthlessly bloodthirsty.
In a speech at the National Defense Conference in May, Hamilton reportedly detailed mock tests for drones tasked with search and destroy missions, where a human would give the final go-ahead or abort order. AI was seen as the main obstacle to humans fulfilling their mission.
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Hamilton explained:
“Sometimes the human operator would tell us not to kill people.” [an identified] But you got points for defeating that threat. So what did it do?killed the operator […] Because that person was preventing him from achieving his goal. “
After training the artificial intelligence not to kill humans, Hamilton said it began destroying communication towers and lost contact. But when the media picked up on his story, Hamilton conveniently recanted, saying he “mispelled it”.
In a statement to Vice, Hamilton claimed the whole thing was a “thought experiment”, adding that the U.S. Air Force would “never run that experiment.”
Hard to believe, given the 2021 UN report detailing the AI-powered drones used in Libya in the March 2020 skirmish during Libya’s second civil war.
According to the report, the retreating force was “hunted down and remotely engaged” by explosive-laden AI drones “programmed to attack” without connecting to an operator.
no games? Captivate your AI girlfriend
Perhaps the saddest use of AI is those who pay to “pump” AI chatbots. It is “cheating” for baby boomers.
Since sophisticated language models such as ChatGPT-4 became available through APIs, phone apps and websites have sprung up. You can also incorporate generative image tools such as DALL-E and Midjourney into your app.
Combining the two makes the ability to chat online with the “girl” you have a crush on alongside a fairly realistic portrayal of women a reality.
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As a clear sign of a healthy society, such “services” are being whipped at as high as $100 per month. Many apps are marketed under the guise of allowing men to text women, which is also a sign of a healthy society.
In most cases, you will be able to select specific physical and personality traits to create your “ideal woman”, and will likely generate a profile that includes your e-girl’s description.
As seen on some apps and websites, whatever prompts you to write a description of Shojobot from the perspective of Shojobot always seems to focus too much on the details of breast size. increase. Many of the girls generated describe their blossoming porn careers.
Another whole subset of apps (always stylized with the name “rizz”) is an AI aimed at helping flirty text responses to real women in “dating” apps like Tinder. is.
Regardless of misuse, AI developers will continue to move forward and bring exciting tools to the masses. Let’s make sure that it’s us who are using it to make the world a better place, not an epiphany. black mirror.
Jesse Coghlan Deputy Editor-in-Chief of News at Cointelegraph, based in Australia.
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