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Snapchat influencer Caryn Marjorie used ChatGPT to create CarynAI, a digital girlfriend affords digital companionship for a buck per minute.
CarynAI at present has 1,000 boyfriends and has pulled in a cool $71.6k of income for IRL Marj after only one week!
With one thing like CaryAI, customers know what they’re getting in to…however what occurs after we do not know the content material we’re consuming is AI generated?
AI generated content material + social bots = faux information on a scale we have by no means seen earlier than.
Within the not-too-distant future, information media firms are going to want an answer that publicly verifies content material as their very own (blockchain).
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Everybody’s out right here worrying about AI taking their jobs, when actually it is right here to take their girlfriends.
(Who’d have guessed?)
Truthful warning: we’re about to leap from AI girlfriends, to faux information, to blockchain know-how, in jarring succession – so seize maintain of one thing sturdy.
We’ll begin with AI girlfriends.
Snapchat influencer Caryn Marjorie used ChatGPT to create CarynAI, a digital girlfriend affords digital companionship for a buck per minute.
CarynAI at present has 1,000 boyfriends and has pulled in a cool $71.6k of income for IRL Marj after only one week!
(FREAKIN’ WILD!).
…which bought us desirous about Fb, the 2016 US election, and the way forward for info safety/verification.
How did we make that bounce? No concept! (Ship assist).
Here is the rabbit gap we went down…
With one thing like CaryAI, customers know what they’re getting in to…however what occurs after we do not know the content material we’re consuming is AI generated?
If it is a weblog publish detailing a killer bolognese recipe – we’re most likely not going to care.
But when it is information amidst an election cycle? Issues may get messy. AI does a half first rate job of fabricating textual content, audio, and imagery that feels actual…
And subsequent up is video.
AI generated content material + social bots = faux information on a scale we have by no means seen earlier than.
When it got here out that Fb was leveraged to unfold misinformation within the 2016 US elections – all of us discovered to scrutinize our information sources slightly extra.
(Do not acknowledge the information media model you are watching/studying? The data you are getting will not be dependable).
It is not a far stretch to think about a day when AI might be skilled on the hundreds of hours of reports protection from any main information outlet, to manufacture information content material that is indistinguishable from the true factor.
Which brings us to blockchain:
With the entire above in thoughts, within the not-too-distant future, information media firms are going to want an answer that publicly verifies content material as their very own.
Whereas it is boring – it may nicely be how we first see ALL main social platforms undertake blockchain know-how wholly and fully (past NFTs as profile photos).
The ‘10,000 ft view’ of this resolution would possibly look one thing like this:
Information media firms mint their content material as NFTs on a low price blockchain.
The social platforms create an integration that appears for the verified metadata saved in these NFTs.
If a photograph/video is proven to be from a specific supply however cannot be verified on-chain, it is famous as an ‘unverified supply’ within the newsfeed.
Phew…okay, we bought by means of it. How’s your neck? Any whiplash?