A ChatGPT prompt is shown on a device. AI has already weaponized the news and made us question everything we see or hear from the media.As a civilization, we’ve done a collectively poor job recognizing technology that is transformational. In hindsight, we shake our heads and wonder how we could have possibly overlooked the dawn of a new epoch. This being Silicon Valley, there will be another one coming along in six months.
Today, we’re flying down a road that’s going to take us to terrifying and beautiful places. Artificial intelligence isn’t going to reshape tomorrow. It’s disrupting the social order right now, faster than anyone, even its developers, can believe. AI has already weaponized the news and made us question everything we see or hear from the media. Marshall McLuhan said the medium is the message. Today the “fake news”the real news.
It’s not a joke when that blurred reality kills somebody. If that hasn’t happened already, it’s coming very soon. The judicial system is built on separating the true from the false. At this juncture all we have are questions about something very few people understand. As always, pornography is one of the earliest fields to embrace new technology. Right now, somebody is creating a video that victimizes the president. Or the Pope. Or the 14-year-old girl across the street. Once any single image goes online, it becomes a million images that can never be erased. They will be floating around the internet like some kind of space debris.