COINTELPRO, beginning in the late 1950s, would insert undercover agents into various political organizations they deemed dangerous. On several ocassions the agents were exposed by the members of these various organizations, and initially this was thought to be a bad thing. What COINTELPRO noticed however, was that the revelation that an undercover agent had infiltrated the group was so damaging to group cohesiveness and trust that the targeted organization would typically break up anyhow. From then on, it became a strategy, and undercover agents would pick the right time to implicate themselves as imposters.
With Gen AI I guess this process of trust destruction, for artist communities at least, has been fully automated. I think we can ruin a lot more than just artist communities as things develop.
Yeah, just looking at our local game development community, every time someone posts anything AI related there will be quite a number of the same people who rip into them about it, whereas another group believe in using the the tools and will defend accordingly.
COINTELPRO, beginning in the late 1950s, would insert undercover agents into various political organizations they deemed dangerous. On several ocassions the agents were exposed by the members of these various organizations, and initially this was thought to be a bad thing. What COINTELPRO noticed however, was that the revelation that an undercover agent had infiltrated the group was so damaging to group cohesiveness and trust that the targeted organization would typically break up anyhow. From then on, it became a strategy, and undercover agents would pick the right time to implicate themselves as imposters.
With Gen AI I guess this process of trust destruction, for artist communities at least, has been fully automated. I think we can ruin a lot more than just artist communities as things develop.
Yeah, just looking at our local game development community, every time someone posts anything AI related there will be quite a number of the same people who rip into them about it, whereas another group believe in using the the tools and will defend accordingly.
Videogames have always been slop, though.