Girlfriends, murdered kids, assassin androids — is AI cursed?

cointelegraph.com:

Is artificial intelligence (AI) cursed? It seems to be accelerating us toward a dystopia that humanity isn’t ready for.

It's true that AI has had positive effects for some people. Twitter hustlers have an endless stream of new AI tools, giving them endless content about useless ChatGPT prompts that they can use to compile threads for shilling  their newsletters. More significantly, AI has helped to streamline information — and is being used to detect cancer in some cases.

However, many have chosen to use AI to create content — and sometimes whole businesses — centered on ththings that sci-fi warned us about.

“I was put into a washing machine by my father and put on the spin cycle causing my death,” says an AI-created toddler in one TikTok video. He stands in front of a washing machine and recounts an awful yet horrifyingly true story of a three-year-old murdered in 2011.

It’s the most awful use of generative AI. True crime-loving ghouls making TikToks sometimes using deepfakes of children who were killed — to detail how they were killed.

Thousands of similar videos plague TikTok with AI-generated voices and images of kids cheerfully laying out “their” gruesome murders. Some are delusional enough to think the videos “honor” the victims.

Thankfully, not all videos depict the real victims, but some do even though TikTok banned deepfakes of young people.

I’ve been getting those AI generated true crime tiktoks where the victims narrate what happened to them and I think it’s time we put the true crime community in prison

Arguments can be made that the videos highlight stories worth telling to a younger audience with no attention span for longer content, but such “true crime” related media is often exploitative regardless.

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