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    Catherine Thorbecke: China’s AI video rush is a wake-up call for the world
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    Catherine Thorbecke: China’s AI video rush is a wake-up call for the world

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    1. Duronlor on

      Nothingburger of an article. “Ooh scary Chinese are going to deepfake porn of you, unlike our le wholesome US corporations who care so much about us that they haven’t released this AI //yet//”

      >During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.

    2. RainaHobbs890- on

      I saw the article about AI’s impact on Philippines, the world’s call centre capital, and was wondering what would China’s mass number of emerging generative AI tool mean? I know that a lot of fundamental human labour like customer services (just like in the Philippines), or even scam calls in China have gone AI. 

      However, are the entertainment/media playing such big parts in economy, society etc. for different big Chinese companies to start developing this much generative AI in such compact time frame..

      Would it really be beneficial if generative AI, especially in terms of media creations, becomes abundant? I don’t see how generated contents could be so different from human-created work from an audience perspective..