(The post written by the real William Lise.)
Neil deGrasse Tyson said a while ago (in an interview with Don Lemon) that he believes that AI will ruin the Internet by destroying trust, because you won’t know what is real.
It seems we are seeing that happen, and I’m not referring to amusing-but-fake AI videos on entertainment-type platforms.
It now appears that some people on LinkedIn are “creating” posts that might be entirely generated by AI. These posts start ostensibly substantive conversations with people who probably trust that they are interacting with the person who wrote the original post.
I have no desire to bother using software to detect these impersonators of human intelligence.
The thought that I might be interacting with what appears to be a human but is really a collection of software code—used by someone who couldn’t write the post they made and perhaps doesn’t even sufficiently understand the responses to it and the ensuing discussion—is disturbing and unpleasant. And it causes me to lose the desire to interact.
I think NDT was right. Perhaps we have entered the age of “fake until proven human.”