> His immediate concern is that the internet will be flooded with false photos, videos and text, and the average person will “not be able to know what is true anymore

Since real life is faithfully following the plot of MGS2 so far, the next step is to make an AI who runs the government and filters the entire internet and decides what is true or not.

> Down the road, he is worried that future versions of the technology pose a threat to humanity because they often learn unexpected behavior from the vast amounts of data they analyze. This becomes an issue, he said, as individuals and companies allow A.I. systems not only to generate their own computer code but actually run that code on their own. And he fears a day when truly autonomous weapons — those killer robots — become reality.

> “The idea that this stuff could actually get smarter than people — a few people believed that,” he said. “But most people thought it was way off. And I thought it was way off. I thought it was 30 to 50 years or even longer away. Obviously, I no longer think that.”

This seems to me to be pretty obviously about AGI.

We are not just going to have “false photos, videos and text”: we are going to have false people. Lots of them.

Completely artificial characters which are, as far as we could tell through digital means, perfectly indistinguishable from real persons.

As long as the tech to create fake things is accessible to all it literally doesn’t matter.

Only matters if one or two parties can do it and the rest of us don’t know it’s possible.

Fake text can already exist, I can write any I want right now. Anyone who wants to create a fake image already can with time and Photoshop + Blender. None of this matters.