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It is dangerous. In most of third world, far right politics is largely based on settling historic scores. To that end, Im guessing this will be weaponised by lots of groups to create content to target minorities.

I do believe bulk of the use for this more than for education purposes, will be for propaganda, radicalisation etc.

While the makers might get away making 'its just art' excuse. This will be a new round of fake news/history flood unseen like ever before. Every bit of vague/abstract statement, or even an absent detail in history books can be taken out of context, or just made from fiction to create narratives against vulnerable groups of people.

One wonders how this will be regulated or if it can even be regulated.

When people talk of AI safety, more than terminator/skynet style apocalypse I largely imagine these sort of things to cause more short/middle term damage.




> In most of the third world, far right politics is largely based on settling historic scores. To that end, I'm guessing this will be weaponised by lots of groups to create content to target minorities.

Current events would suggest that the word "third" is redundant.


Forgive me taking my oafish American hammer to this particular nail, but - this is speech and should not be "regulated," full stop.

The solution to this being used to disseminate falsehoods is education, both about the technology (to make it easier for the average person to spot AI content which at least for the time being is still possible) and about topics likely to have falsehoods spread about them.

You cannot put this genie back in its bottle.


Isn't education also "just speach" that must not be regulated then?

If not, then I believe anything that present history is education, be it on YouTube or in a classroom.

I believe this not because of some preconception or ideology, but because I observed that non classroom material is often referenced by people looking for historical justifications.


The American obsession with being allowed to lie and claim it has the same worth as the truth is insane.




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