Exactly - and I think you can probably manipulate people into lowering their guard against AI content, being more receptive, by pressing the right buttons. After all, that's the basis of the entire advertising industry. And the most unpleasant aspect here is that people will be using it to elicit false empathy for actual suffering (abuse, bullying, depression, addiction), because they know those themes are 'popular'.

There's nothing to stop them making such autobiographical stuff up already, of course.

But the people liable to be unethical enough to do so are less likely to have the ability without generative AI to help them. And the sheer volume of 'content' they can generate at the press of a button is potentially overwhelming for any human or technological filtering system on this - or any other - platform.

Matthew Clapham
Matthew Clapham

Written by Matthew Clapham

Professional translator by day. Writer of silly and serious stuff by night. Also by day, when I get fed up of tedious translations. Founder of Iberospherical.

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