Somebody in the tech field tell me whether stories like these have serious implications or are just techno-nonsense

https://www.newsweek.com/lucas-rizzotto-youtuber-microwave-artificial-intelligence-tried-murder-1701128

(VERY wordy, skip around the narrative)
https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/jessica-simulation-artificial-intelligence/

5/8/2023 3:38:11 PM

there are many serious impacts soon to be felt by AI. these aren't those.

5/9/2023 12:22:20 PM

Apparently rjrumfel thinks he will be out of a job because of AI. Does that count?

5/9/2023 1:11:58 PM

He (or he and another user) once thought I had hacked him because I embedded an iframe of the TWW homepage into a post, which showed his own logged-in status in the frame (i was somehow suspended for it), so I wouldn't put it past him lol

5/13/2023 12:47:53 PM

LOL!

People who complain that they've been hacked typically have no concept of what constitutes an actual hack.

It's usually goes like this:

5/13/2023 5:09:06 PM

AI-created deepfake pics and videos will lead to ruined careers, ruined marriages, ruined lives, suicides, murders, false convictions, and quite possibly violent riots and mini-civil wars. Rogue groups, intelligences agencies, and nations will also use them for their nefarious purposes.

This is how it starts:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12069161/A-porn-clip-popped-phone-star.html

Some of the statistics in the link are mind-boggling and horrifying.

[Edited on May 14, 2023 at 5:42 AM. Reason : ]

5/14/2023 5:39:14 AM

Think about the NFT goldmine a good graphical AI could be. Surely it will dupe some more gullible people.

5/14/2023 10:02:12 PM

5/16/2023 12:20:07 PM

Quote :

"He (or he and another user) once thought I had hacked him because I embedded an iframe of the TWW homepage into a post, which showed his own logged-in status in the frame (i was somehow suspended for it), so I wouldn't put it past him lol"

LOL. Yea, that was long before I knew much about anything.

Still funny though. What's worse, the moderators didn't check and went ahead and suspended you.

5/18/2023 11:03:26 AM