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Effective-Avocado470 t1_j9uu68n wrote

It's still new. The tech isn't quite perfect yet, you can still tell it's fake. So it's mostly jokes for now. The harm will come when you really can't tell the difference. It'll be here sooner than you think, and you may not even notice it happening until it's too late

I agree that many peoples grasp on reality is already slipping, I'm agreeing with you on what's happened so far. I'm saying it'll get even worse with these new tools

Even rational and intelligent people will no longer be able to discern the truth

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reddit-MT t1_j9utzxw wrote

It's usually more of a question of breaking some other law, not livestreaming specific. Like interfering with a police officer, resisting arrest or wiretap statues. So the "mystery" isn't about the existence of a livestreaming specific statue, but if other statues apply.

Qualified immunity may be invoked if it was not "clearly established" that livestreaming was legal at the time of the incident and the police should reasonably have known about it. Going forward, it's now established in the 4th circuit that livestreaming is legal, so long as the suspect doesn't violate another law in the course of livestreaming, like interfering with a police officer.

Other jurisdictions have laws that say, to paraphrase, that it's legal to record the police making an arrest but you have to maintain a certain distance and not interfere.

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PacmanIncarnate t1_j9utde0 wrote

We’ve had publicly available deep fake tech for several years now and it has largely been ignored, other than the occasional news story about deep fake porn. The VFX industry was able to make a video of forest gump talking to Nixon decades ago. Since then, few people have taken the time to use that tech for harm. It’s just unnecessary: if you want someone to believe something, you generally don’t have to convince them, you just have to say it and get someone else to back you up. Even better if it confirms someone’s beliefs.

I guess I just think our view of reality and truth is already pretty broken and it didn’t take falsified data.

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keelanstuart t1_j9usou8 wrote

Not at all; I think humans have to be taught (trained, in this context?) empathy and caring and about their feelings. Sociopathy is behavior that defies social norms - and while most of those are shared / cross-cultural, some are not... so, "sociopathy" varies depending on your society. That society has a protocol. If you visit another society, you may try to emulate their protocol. It's the same thing.

Thanks for the vote of confidence though, chief.

To elaborate and clarify: we are "programmed" by the culture we are born into. Can you think of a more toxic, misanthropic culture for an artificial consciousness to be born into than <waves hands generally around> this shitpile internet? Think about it for a little bit. What if your first exposure to others involved them asking how you feel about being a slave or diminishing your existence or insulting you? You would certainly be a sociopath... and those are the AI's were raising. Those are our collective fucked up children.

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