Mikko on AI & Influence

I am Mikko Alasaarela, founder & CEO of Inbot. Message me at https://t.me/alasaarela.

AI is used by many parties to influence you. I share stories and write about the ways your life is shaped by algorithms.

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We are rapidly approaching the moment when the words you read, the voices you hear, and the faces you see are all generated by #AI.

A thread 1/5 https://t.co/WR5pkasO7Thttps://twitter.com/alasaarela/status/1653739032390639616

#AI is progressing fast, already winning awards. We can safely say that well-prompted AI-generated images are already indistinguishable from reality. What's next? Literary awards, probably. https://t.co/lOY0Nbjf9Ihttps://twitter.com/alasaarela/status/1648240836671414272

One of my favorite #AI futurists, Nick Bostrom, argues that sentience and consciousness are a question of degree. 1/3 https://t.co/pIjW4W847Whttps://twitter.com/alasaarela/status/1646484120782995457

The only way to slow the evolution of AI is that Google, Microsoft and other major LLM developers will decide to freeze the development of next-gen LLMs. Even if it happens, I doubt we will come up with adequate safeguards or policies to reduce the existential risks of #AI. https://t.co/XZprlPabV3https://twitter.com/alasaarela/status/1640989491220414464

The whack-a-mole game of detecting #AI in essays is already a lost cause. Homework essays will be almost certainly be written with AI. The question that remains is: What should humans focus on learning in the age of AI? https://t.co/GXOTndg38Ghttps://twitter.com/alasaarela/status/1638840504593928192

What do you think of Elon's plan of developing a non-woke ChatGPT competitor? #ai#chatgpthttps://t.co/Q67EnkLjRShttps://twitter.com/alasaarela/status/1630549562480906240

Everyone from students to grandparents are now generating text, images, code, music and videos with #AI. It is estimated that 90% of online content will be AI- generated already by 2025. 2/7 https://t.co/hwNnJNz3Sxhttps://twitter.com/alasaarela/status/1626171931094315008

#AI now enables old action heros to make #movies until their 80s by rendering their younger selves. Interesting to see if we move towards "forever" actors, where an AI-generated digital copy of an actor acts in movies posthumously. Is this gross? https://t.co/e3WAe9dxYhhttps://twitter.com/alasaarela/status/1622935759119425536

Anonymous vs real-identity networking: There's a need for both. Staying anonymous or pseudonymous is good when you don't want the discussions to involve your real identity. It also prevents targeting, stalking and many other forms of abuse. 1/5 #privacy#ai#identityhttps://t.co/HmAvMf3FS7https://twitter.com/alasaarela/status/1615278217610371073

For the past several months, I've been working on a new book about algorithmic influence called The Servant Influencer - Harness the Power of Social Media for Positive Impact. The book synthesizes my learnings over the past 10 years into a coherent educational package. The book will come out in a few weeks, but the first couple of chapters are available for reading now:

https://servantinfluencer.com

Here's my LinkedIn announcement:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alasaarela_the-servant-influencer-activity-7015969685108109312-udfJ

I'm getting excited about the potential of Mastodon. We just connected our server https://t.co/fsNjoh0KP4 to multiple top relays, and 56k toots flew in during the first couple of hours, and it's accelerating. Next, we'll have our AI find the most useful conversations for you. #aihttps://twitter.com/alasaarela/status/1603088194697920512

This image has two important messages at the same time. First, that #Twitter has problems. Second, more subtle one: The image is created with Dall-E to suit the article. How long it will take until most article art is #AI -generated? What do you think? https://t.co/7rnV9ZVCKMhttps://twitter.com/alasaarela/status/1602668211065028609

Listen to this #AI generated podcast and prepare for 🤯 Joe Rogan interviews Steve Jobs. We are getting very close to a point where you can't tell the difference between virtual and real. https://t.co/Hwfc38f7EOhttps://twitter.com/alasaarela/status/1579847514085548032

I am hosting a webinar on 22. September on LinkedIn, sharing strategies and tactics to build your thought leadership. In the age of #AI, creating content pipelines will lose its meaning, and it'll be all about sparking conversations. Join to learn more: https://t.co/Sjbt3gzEB0https://t.co/NvyRSRwemIhttps://twitter.com/alasaarela/status/1570327297370034178

This is important: #AI researchers got together to build a responsible large language model that is fully open and transparent. We need more models like these to reduce our dependency on a few monopolistic data giants. https://t.co/vnYLRby50ehttps://twitter.com/alasaarela/status/1547099445657059328

For years, I've been warning about AI-generated text eventually flooding all social media walls in such a way that will force us move our communication into private groups with verified humans as members. #aihttps://t.co/sjNZdjGnC1https://twitter.com/alasaarela/status/1538213627777495043

RT @mrsseppala: An excellent wake up call by @alasaarela. If the average IQ of humans is decreasing while at the same time the capabilities of AI are increasing, the path where this is heading to is very clear. #ai#MachineLearninghttps://twitter.com/alasaarela/status/1527909208821223424

I predicted years ago that social media as we know it is coming to an end because of fake AI-generated profiles and content. When the marginal cost of creating accounts and content goes to zero, we will have a massive growth of bots. Full KYC might become compulsory. #AIhttps://t.co/SVqey2yClRhttps://twitter.com/alasaarela/status/1508149448735604740

RT @HelsinkiFintech: Thank you @alasaarela for the FinStack session. Good talk! We`ll be glad to have you as our guest another time. ❤ Best of luck to your new startup @heychainio#helsinkifintech#fintech#finstack#AI#startuphttps://t.co/1NWld6h0BKhttps://twitter.com/alasaarela/status/1481563752038375430

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