BecomeMe

Yeah it's a problem but it's not the society-collapsing event you folk are making it out to be. People are increasingly radicalized because the world sucks and world leaders are asleep at the helm, not because of perceived evidence of whatever distraction the far right is talking about this week. The fake evidence only entrenches those already too far in the hole, it didn't put them in the hole. It's a many-faceted issue of which AI is not even top 10. AI being made up to be this grand societal problem is at best a symptom of the problem, that at a societal level we don't value our collective future anymore.

I know how the far right operates, I was in that hole 8 years ago. Nobody from the left isle pulled me out of it, I just started reading the sources they were citing and realized it didn't add up. That's what you have to encourage, if you want to help anybody. Don't preach doom and gloom, just tell people to read the cited source. If they start talking about (((them))) then they're too far gone anyway and you're only entrenching them in their beliefs by being the boogeyman they were promised would come. AI isn't a factor, anybody can lie. Cryptography has existed for ages, secure and verifiable communications are already a reality and could completely mitigate the issue, it's just a matter of getting the people in charge to steer the damn ship.

3D printed guns didn't turn out to be the problem it was hyped up to be, either.