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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kermit4karate" data-source="post: 9768099" data-attributes="member: 7053643">Don't forget the completely fabricated videos. OpenAI just released Sora 2, their AI video generator, and whoa baby, just wait till those fake propaganda videos start spreading and getting memed and amplified. We may very well be in the late stages of democracy itself, and I don't mean that in a political sense. I mean that in the academic sense, as in 'democracy' in general.OK, saying all that, I would argue with probably anyone here that I actually think AI will be even WORSE than many of the members here think it will be. I use it A LOT, and I work in a career that's enmeshed in it, and I think the disruptive effects of AI will be... Well, seriously, it could lead to Armageddon, or at the very least societal collapse in many nations. Widespread >20% unemployment, massive underemployment as PhDs are relegated to minimum-wage retail.It may also lead to the cure for cancer, practical cold fusion, other epic scientific and medical advances.... End of the day, will it have been worth it? End of the day, depends on who you're asking. If you're asking a future human? Maybe not! If you're asking one of their AI overlords though...?Yes, this hinges on the development of what they call AGI, Artificial General Intelligence, but that's coming soon enough. I bet we only have 5 years tops before actual self-motivated AI is here.</blockquote>