Did we ever know those things before? Even talking to a human face-to-face, I’ve had people lie to my face to try and scam/sell me something and people resell art all the time. You have little ability to tell whether an artist’s work is genuine or a copy unless they are famous.

And the job? I’ve been laid off several times in my career. You never know if you will have a job tomorrow or not.

AI has changed none of this, it is only exposing these problems to more people than before because it makes these things easier. It also makes good works easier, but I don’t think it cheapens that work if the person had the capability in the first place.

In essence, we have the same problems we had before and now we are socially forced to deal with them a bit more head-on. I don’t think it’s a bad thing though. We needed to deal with this at some point anyway.

false equivalence fallacy: AI can destroy jobs and its ok unless you can compare it to a 0-layoff baseline.

AI doesn’t destroy jobs. That’s like saying bulldozers destroyed jobs. No, it makes certain jobs easier. You still have to know what you’re doing. I can have an AI generate a statement of work in 30 seconds, but I still need to validate that output with people. You can sometimes validate it yourself to a degree, just like you can look at hole from a bulldozer and know it’s a hole. You just don’t know if it is a safe hole.

>Religion is the opposite of AI text generation. It brings people together to be less lonely

Eh yes, but also debatable.

It brings you together if you follow their rules, and excommunicates you to the darkness if you do not. It is a complicated set of controls from the times before the rules of society were well codified.