> Your first two examples are the only ones that are consequential
Er no. That poor kid might end up getting socially shunned at best and lynch mobbed and killed at worst. I'd say that's pretty fucking consequential. And that's just one example of an infinite amount of scenarios. Every "big" event is just an aggregation of many individual stories.
> and you don’t need AI for either.
You are massively underestimating the scale of change. In the past you would have needed an entire team working many hours to create one short video of high enough quality to fool people. Now anyone, anywhere, will be able to create them in an instant. Not only that, they will be able to create videos tailored to an individual and delivered to them for maximum effect. That is 100% only enabled by AI.
> You could do all that a century ago
Television wasn't even invented a century ago. You could make up some fake story and put it in the newspaper, but people trust their eyes more than words, and they're also moved to action by
them more as well.
And no, a government absolutely could not run any kind of deception campaign in 1923 anywhere close to what they will be able to when this is perfected. A motivated sole individual with a bit of capital to spare, let alone a government, will be able to run a deception campaign thousands of times more effective than any 1920s trickster's wildest dreams.
Er no. That poor kid might end up getting socially shunned at best and lynch mobbed and killed at worst. I'd say that's pretty fucking consequential. And that's just one example of an infinite amount of scenarios. Every "big" event is just an aggregation of many individual stories.
> and you don’t need AI for either.
You are massively underestimating the scale of change. In the past you would have needed an entire team working many hours to create one short video of high enough quality to fool people. Now anyone, anywhere, will be able to create them in an instant. Not only that, they will be able to create videos tailored to an individual and delivered to them for maximum effect. That is 100% only enabled by AI.
> You could do all that a century ago
Television wasn't even invented a century ago. You could make up some fake story and put it in the newspaper, but people trust their eyes more than words, and they're also moved to action by them more as well.
And no, a government absolutely could not run any kind of deception campaign in 1923 anywhere close to what they will be able to when this is perfected. A motivated sole individual with a bit of capital to spare, let alone a government, will be able to run a deception campaign thousands of times more effective than any 1920s trickster's wildest dreams.