Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’

I can foresee that the “Nigerian Prince” and “We are calling from the bank” enterprises may get fully automated, pushing ordinary criminal copywriters and call centers in impoverished areas out of business. Shall I be rooting for the humans or the AI in that area? Not sure.

The ‘Effective Accelerationism’ movement doesn’t care if humans are replaced by AI as long as they’re there to make money from it

Watching how this cluster of unintelligent technologies impacts us is a bit like watching the end of Fight Club in very slow motion. I keep blogging that generative AI is a form automation that by intent or accident tends to steal content and traffic from human content creators, and I hope enough others speak about it so that it’s heard. This can replace the genuine information with fakes and hallucinations, embedded with the search engines and social media.

What can we do? Blog more. Influence a regulatory change.

Blogging and writing will keep the momentum of human expression, even if it also trains the bots.