I was simply explaining my personal fears regarding AI given that lynch mobs exist in my country; the lesson you should have taken from that was not about lynch mobs, but to analyse how AI might affect YOU in your particular environment.

Remember the post is about cloning a youtuber's voice using AI; most people were thinking of the copywrite aspect of it, but I wanted to share with people what my fear was.

My fears are, things are already bad w.r.t lynch mobs before AI, after AI things will only get worse with fake but realistic sounding voice notes etc. That's my fear, doesn't have to be yours.

You don't have lynch mobs (hopefully) but surely you can think of other problems that a fake AI image/audio/video can cause, and just low the barrier is, and just how good the tools are.

I don’t disagree that AI could exacerbate the issue, in fact I agree. But anything could potentially do so. Instant messaging likely also made the problem worse as a call to form a mob can reach many people much faster than before. The time from inciting incident to mob action is greatly compressed because of instant messaging.

It’s fundamentally a societal issue, not a technological one. Yes, it’s scary what effect AI could have on lynch mobs, because lynch mobs are scary.

Maybe it's because I have no knowledge of lynch mobs in my country but I find that fear is a bad adviser. I think currently there is no way back in AI development. I read Microsoft is getting a failed nuclear reactor repaired to power the power hungry AI.

The only way forward is making sure most people know that digital content can be easily faked. If you hand out good faker tools for free, it will happen faster

There is absolutely a way back if laws change. It's that simple, people need to stop pretending its inevitable when it absolutely isn't.

International law like in... human rights? Are those currently being enforced?