Does this mean china protects data better than the US? Or is chinese internet a gambling and pornography hellscape more than the wider internet is currently
This isn’t new. Check out Yasha Levine’s . It’s a nice primer. Most of our internet tech was built for the military or funded by the military for military ideas (no matter what MIT or Berkeley theoreticians might try to convince you of).
No way in hell would I do that if I had that kind of knowledge. Look what happened to Snowden for doing something like that.
He would still spend the remainder of his life in federal prison or be executed if he ever steps back on US soil or the soil of someone with an extradition treaty that is looking to get some brownie points.
That wouldn’t happen to all of them, but I bet you there are some working on some classified mess that would be found and made an example of in short order to shut the others up.
If there is one thing the Chinese government does well it is law enforcement. If you make a deep fake that isn’t in line with the public narrative you disappear.
I wonder how long it will be before we see people purposely create these so they can influence their descendants. There might be a future where people have “relationships” with a collection of long dead people.
AIs controlling money is the application that scares me the most, honestly, not weapons. It’s flexible and attached to every section of life by design; there is no such thing as sandboxing.
Depending on how it’s implemented, it might very well be one of the non-creepy uses. As long as it isn’t taken to extremes, being able to have a chance to say goodbye to your loved one could be therapeutic. Or to see them once a year during the Ghost Festival to help keep their memory alive.
It does have high creepy potential (all deepfakes do), but I can understand the appeal. Make sure you take some nice videos of the people you love, and let them take some of you. Death doesn’t always come with a warning, and you don’t want to be wishing you had some recordings.
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