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Google researchers have come out with a new paper that warns that generative AI is ruining vast swaths of the internet with fake content โ€” which is painfully ironic because Google has been hard at work pushing the same technology to its enormous user base.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Ironic.

""Manipulation of human likeness and falsification of evidence underlie the most prevalent tactics in real-world cases of misuse," the researchers conclude. "Most of these were deployed with a discernible intent to influence public opinion, enable scam or fraudulent activities, or to generate profit.""

Who could have seen that coming? But in all seriousness, this is exactly why so many people have been so vehemently opposed to generative AI. It's not because it can't be useful. It's literally because of how it is actively being used.