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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 9835878" data-attributes="member: 20564">You're stating something impossible to prove and asking us to accept it on faith.  Again, it is your claim so it is on you to prove it.  It looks like you are saying here that it is impossible for you to prove support for your claim.Such as the weather prediction that benefits people and the environment?  Thanks, you reminded me that we already have examples where what you are saying is incorrect.Disproven above.Again, you are confusing a tool for the uses the tool is put towards.  I've seen horror movies where a chainsaw is used to attack people.  That has nothing to do with making the chainsaw inherently bad, just the use that particular person is doing with it.Because, as shows, it has had benefits like the weather prediction.  That's not disputable unless you are willing to ignore facts.I agree with the second part -- with deepfake videos and swarms of AI social media bots the tool is being used by some to attack, undermine, or reshape our beliefs and what we think is true.  Our critique and evaluation of sources will have to grow, and it already has begun among many.  "Seeing is believing" is now outdated.And again, none of that is inherent in the tool, it's how it's being used by people.  Can people abuse a tool?  Absolutely.  Is this a tool where money can give you more access to it which can lead to bigger abuses?  Sure, money can give you access to lots of tools that can be abused.That doesn't convince me that it's going away.  Nor that the tool within itself is inherently immoral and cannot also be used productively since we've factually have examples where it can.</blockquote>

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