Artificial Intelligence Is Freaking Terrifying

Especially when none of our leaders possess the real kind

Back in the old days, I had nightmares about a robot with an Austrian accent chasing me down. That’s how I assumed the gadgets would take over. That’s what I was taught.

The truth is, the rise of the machines is a lot weirder than anybody ever expected. And it’s already too late to stop them. Just look at what any nerd with a laptop can do in 2023.

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This video is fake, and it looks like the text they plugged into the AI Biden voice generator originated in a 2020 4chan post. It won't be long before these deepfakes are indistinguishable from the real thing. Skynet has already won.

Every new technology brings with it new opportunities for trolling.

Even the most casual Biden-watcher can tell within seconds that this video isn’t real, because all the words are pronounced correctly and formed into complete sentences. Plus, Joe would never admit any of this stuff out loud. But as with anything else, people of below-average intelligence might be fooled.¹

It’s only a matter of time before somebody writes a dementia algorithm, automatically adding awkward pauses and mispronunciations and whatnot. (“It’s a stutter!”) Then AI voices will be indistinguishable from actual old people.