Personally: I'm skeptical the status quo changes much. The "pre-AI" world was not exactly filled to the brim with shining truth. Propaganda, dishonest arguing, and just plain ignorance have existed for a long time. True, generative AI appears to be great at fabricating stuff, so verifying sources is arguably more important than ever.

Thinking about it, I guess deepfakes are more concerning to me than the textual stuff. I don't follow the state of the art there, but what few I do run across (e.g. fake phone calls "from" famous people) does seem... concerning. It's not quite good enough to be convincing yet, but if it were a perfect replication, recordings would be suspect. (On the other hand, audio recordings haven't existed for all of recorded history, so maybe it's not quite the end of the world, I dunno.)

Anyway, anyone want to take bets on how poorly this comment ages? 😛

This AI hype shit has to stop. Humans are “mentally unready” to handle AI post-truth whatever in the same way that we’re not ready to handle finding the peanut in the turd. What you’re saying is chat bots will make the internet useless/worthless and we already know that

The stuff about replacing doctors and teachers is insane, given the state of AI tech today, you’re gonna go to your doctor and they’ll tell you you’ve got frog DNA? No

Best part is we don't even have AI, we have keyboard prediction on steroids. Maybe that's why it's everywhere, not telling everybody to leave them alone.

Thing is, this isn’t AI causing the problem. It’s humans using it in incredibly dumb irresponsible ways. Once again, it’ll be us that do ourselves in. We really need to mature as a species before we can handle this stuff.

You know, of all the ways AI could threaten us, I never imagined it would be chat programs madly spewing falsehoods.

Seems obvious now but like everyone who grew up watching movies like Terminator I figured the threat would be killer drones or meddling with financial markets, or even replacing too many jobs.