"The calmness of being able to outsource our trust." - Should have been the title. I am going to have to re-read this when I have more time. So many gems.
Blockchain technology will allow us to cryptographically verify the provenance of any media. For example, images/videos taken from a camera device will be cryptographically-signed by that device and this proof of provenance will be stored on the blockchain. No amount of AI-horsepower will be able to break the cryptographic proof.
Obviously this will be extremely helpful in a world where there will be a lot of AI-generated fake content.
RE: "We've been here before" with regard to "verify THEN trust"
One has to wonder whether a baseline low-trust society can functionally operate in even the admittedly flawed manner we have come to expect of liberal democratic societies. Feels like a baseline level of trust is required before people expect their fellow men to responsibly navigate liberal democracy. What is the correlate tale of trust receding while general democratic modes increase?
Sure, we've been in low-trust states as a society before, but I'd argue that many Western democracies had only started to fully serve all citizens fairly once that low-trust state receded. To put it another way, it might not END democracy, but it seems assured to erode the progress we've made in putting it into action.
Conspiracy theorist here. I feel like the timing and lack of early regulation around these tools is purposefully designed to align with the 2024 federal election and throw it into chaos. Much like how we're seeing Bitcoin mining and exchanges now getting regulated, only after massive holding companies have bought up most of it, AI generation is being allowed to run rampant and do its damage in the news cycles today, so that it can be reigned in and controlled tomorrow.
"The calmness of being able to outsource our trust." - Should have been the title. I am going to have to re-read this when I have more time. So many gems.
I’ve heard more people call Sora the GPT3 moment for text-to-video. “We can expect the Sora → Sora 2 leap to be comparable to GPT-3 → ChatGPT”
What makes you assume that?
Blockchain technology will allow us to cryptographically verify the provenance of any media. For example, images/videos taken from a camera device will be cryptographically-signed by that device and this proof of provenance will be stored on the blockchain. No amount of AI-horsepower will be able to break the cryptographic proof.
Obviously this will be extremely helpful in a world where there will be a lot of AI-generated fake content.
RE: "We've been here before" with regard to "verify THEN trust"
One has to wonder whether a baseline low-trust society can functionally operate in even the admittedly flawed manner we have come to expect of liberal democratic societies. Feels like a baseline level of trust is required before people expect their fellow men to responsibly navigate liberal democracy. What is the correlate tale of trust receding while general democratic modes increase?
Sure, we've been in low-trust states as a society before, but I'd argue that many Western democracies had only started to fully serve all citizens fairly once that low-trust state receded. To put it another way, it might not END democracy, but it seems assured to erode the progress we've made in putting it into action.
Conspiracy theorist here. I feel like the timing and lack of early regulation around these tools is purposefully designed to align with the 2024 federal election and throw it into chaos. Much like how we're seeing Bitcoin mining and exchanges now getting regulated, only after massive holding companies have bought up most of it, AI generation is being allowed to run rampant and do its damage in the news cycles today, so that it can be reigned in and controlled tomorrow.