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Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #1535

Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #1534

Elon Musk is Right

Elon Musk is presently the richest man in the world.

He may also be the smartest.

In an interview with the British prime minister, Musk warned about the dangers of AI (artificial intelligence).

He said, "There will come a point when no job is needed – you can have a job if you want for personal satisfaction, but the AI will be able to do everything."

Breitbart.com has added a new category to its menu: AI danger.

Here you can read some of what Musk has concluded:

Google has replaced its ad sales employees with AI
An L.A.-based company, Channel 1, claims it will become the first news network to utilize AI-generated news anchors starting next year
H&R Block launches AI Tax Filing assistant
Wendy’s is implementing AI powered by Google to take customers’ drive-thru orders- (actually , this may be a good thing, based on my disappointing experience.)

Elon Musk may be a technological genius and he understands the dire consequences of a world consumed with how easily artificial creations can duplicate human labor.

But AI can be even more devastating to our lives right now due to our ignorance of its potential to create a world of fake images.

The images of celebrities are presently being used to perpetrate fraudulent advertising that will allow access to customers’ data and bank accounts. Video ads showing Oprah Winfrey and Jennifer Garner giving away cookware and deluxe mixers free of charge except for a small shipping fee are all fake. In addition, internet ads show Elon Musk inventing all kinds of devices such as small heaters, electrical plugins and mosquito killers and offering them for only that same small shipping charge. Yesterday, I saw one with Musk promoting a weight loss product)

I admit to being just as ignorant and one time even falling for these scams because I hadn’t yet known that AI had been implemented with realistic videos. I had become good at recognizing when a picture had been manipulated by Adobe's Photoshop program but this was quite different. At this very moment, it is obvious that one can no longer trust one’s eyes even when looking at a site that one has been visiting without any previous problems in the past, such as Instagram and Facebook. AI can replace any face on a subject with one of a celebrity and completely change the expression on their faces.

Naturally, the Trump-deranged Democrats will be using AI to plant negative fake images of Trump and others to influence the 2024 presidential election. It appears this is already happening. I’ve just watched such image that was an attack on our former president. Several real videos that I saw were distorted and showed the persons, including Melania Trump, standing next to Trump making weird faces as if they smelled something awful. After all the fake videos aired, the narrator intoned seriously, “Is this who we want for president?” But I watched his inauguration and Melania certainly did not have anything but an adoring and proud expression as she watched her husband assume the presidency. Now...

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