Was randomly watching a video on trailing and hiking (AT hiking curiosity) and found this:
What Happens When AI Knows TOO MUCH? | Reverse Turing Test w/ Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W96C5t_p678 Video starts slow, but give good questions and ideas about the topic.
We've discussed a lot about AI on this thread already and although some dismiss AIs as dangerous or as powerful tools, this video gives good points for both.
Personally I still think its more dangerous than an useful tool, but it is an useful tool nonetheless.
What I'm really worried about though is explained in the example below:
If you give a saw to someone that doesn't know how to use it, they will not only have high probabilities of hurting themselves, but to hurt others. But then not every irresponsible idiot can get a saw and go on the street spinning it trying to cut trees and poles.
If you give a saw to someone that knows how to use the tool well, with responsibility and care, they will not only be able to cut trees and and create art in the form of what sometimes feel like alchemy, but also to create a home, a piece of furniture, or else. But then not everyone has this skill and know-how.
The point of this example is:
A saw is a physical object that not everybody has access to, therefore, the risk of someone that doesn't know how to use it to grab one and cause an accident is low.
In the same vein, the speciality required to masterpiece craft with this tool is rare.
But with AI's... be it LLMs, Video or Image creators, AI assisted created scams/viruses, or whatever else people are using AI for nowadays, everyone with access to the internet can use it.
This means, of course, that the risk of people using it in the long term for bad things is higher. Much higher.
Now I will give you a real example that already plagues the Youtube playlists:
I'm a musician. I enjoy good music and enjoy discovering styles I've never heard before. So, many times during the last couple of weeks, I've been researching and hearing Jazz, Blues, Funk, Soul, EDMs and its subgenres with Youtube being the most accessible way of getting in touch with it all.
With this, I've discovered wonderful artists, both from the path and from the present. BUT ONE THING got on my nerves - a lot. That was:
Those annoying AI created playlists, with AI created songs, with AI created backgrounds, with AI created descriptions, with AI created titles and even bots assisting in manipulation videos algorithms for higher view count and thus, chance of monetization.
Holy Robots Batman! This was such a pain to avoid.
Youtube right now is plagued with "Jazz Playlist 5 hours", "Soul playlist 10 hours", "X style playlist 30 hours" with repeated songs with no author, no reference, nothing - just random piano, sax and drums notes on tempo. For actual people trying to study music and get references this is really troublesome.
This is an actual and practical way AI is already hurting the way people behave. Thus, coming back to the saw example, using it, running on the streets swinging and cutting, hacking and hurting true art created by true musicians in the past and present.
This works, in my humble opinion, the same way with images. But one topic not many talk about is music.
I'm not against AI created art, be it music or image, but they should always say: "This was created using this specific AI, which was feed with this, that and that."
The scary part too (if it wasn't scary and annoying enough) is that True music and True art will never disappear. But it might get suffocated by a huge pile of AI created content for pure monetization.
Can't wait for AI created games! "Yay!" ...
God help us.
