Talk about AI is every lately. It is science fiction made real before its time. Buckle up.
What if, in the end, we are done in not by intercontinental ballistic missiles or climate change, not by microscopic pathogens or a mountain-size meteor, but by … text? Simple, plain, unadorned text, but in quantities so immense as to be all but unimaginable—a tsunami of text swept into a self-perpetuating cataract of content that makes it functionally impossible to reliably communicate in any digital setting?
One of the claims\fears is that it will be a Textpocalypse That puts writers out of business. That is hard to say but
Spam, in all its motley and menacing variety, teaches us that the web has already been writing itself for some time. Now all of the necessary logics—commercial, technological, and otherwise—may finally be in place for an accelerated textpocalypse.
a deluge of bullshit is highly likely.
One thing I don’t hear about is if it will make language translation practical. Another is no one mentions military misuse and is that a biggie.
The best summary I have seen on the issues yet. Of note, AI is being used to diagnose Parkinson’s from speech patterns.