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Andrew Smith's avatar

Feels like things are about to get insanely wild with deepfakes, especially as election season begins to creep closer in the US. We're going to see things we can't imagine today in just a short time.

I think we might see another Arab Spring moment, where everyone thinks something is going to happen due to technology, but something else happens instead.

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Charlie Guo's avatar

I think there's a lot of potential for things to go haywire, but I'm 50/50 on whether it makes a huge impact (versus just making things marginally worse). There's so much AI anxiety already that it's possible we're inoculating ourselves against real damage from misinformation.

That said, 100% agree for another Arab Spring moment here, whether it's misinformation or something else entirely. Too much technology has been unleashed in too short a time for anyone to fully appreciate the ramifications.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Glad you see it that way, Charlie, and I'm glad you're here!

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