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Re:Voice clone of Anthony Bourdain prompts synthetic media e... by colechristensen on Friday July 16, 2021 @09:41PM (#27862957)
We're running up towards "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind." and it is appropriate.

It isn't wrong to replace a human with a machine, I'm not going after calculators, spreadsheets, or farm machinery.

What is to come though is a moral imperative that making machines mimic people is deeply wrong.

Our worldviews, values, and judgements are based on interacting with other humans and to have that set of long-tuned intelligence modeling of minds around us subverted by a computer model will bring out strong objections and eventually violence.

The science fiction writers had it wrong, the first conflict with machines isn't going to happen with an advanced artificial intelligence, it is going to be against naive misbehavior and trickery much like this, especially when the artifice comes into the real world (first iteration: self-driving cars). Semi-religious anti-machine fanatics will be the first wave with terrorist style attacks on machines ... that is if the sane moderates don't do enough to rein in the coming of the artificials first. Wait for a smoking gun event like a car driving itself into a gathering of schoolchildren to get things started.

Re:Voice clone of Anthony Bourdain prompts synthetic media e... by NeoVeles on Friday July 16, 2021 @11:11PM (#27863309)
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." - Frank Herbert (Dune)
Re:Voice clone of Anthony Bourdain prompts synthetic media e... by TeMPOraL on Sunday July 18, 2021 @03:23AM (#27871302)
This here. Machines can only become the enemy when they gain sentience, form a civilization, and declare independence.

Until then, it's not the machines that are the problem. It's the people behind the machines, people making business decisions about operations and deployment of the machines.

Re:Voice clone of Anthony Bourdain prompts synthetic media e... by pjc50 on Saturday July 17, 2021 @03:13AM (#27864046)
> Wait for a smoking gun event like a car driving itself into a gathering of schoolchildren to get things started.

The actual gun industry has somehow managed to avoid being sunk by this problem by keeping the blame on humans despite a school shooting every few months in the US.

Cars will be explicitly advertised that you can turn the automation on, go to sleep, and arrive at the destination, but if the automation hits anything the sleeping human will remain liable. The misleading advert will not.

Re:Voice clone of Anthony Bourdain prompts synthetic media e... by postalrat on Saturday July 17, 2021 @12:30AM (#27863546)
We've always used technology to mimic humans. And all along the way there has been people saying we are going to far.