Status Updates From The New Age of Sexism: How ...

“We should be less concerned about what a malevolent AI of the future might do and more concerned with what some malevolent humans are doing right now with existing technology.”

So fear about AI often concerns hypothetical future situations where the AI does something evil, but ignores what evil things men are actually currently doing using AI.

…and contains only a couple of brief paragraphs on deepfake pornography in its twenty-two pages.”

“Despite the risks to already vulnerable communities, public and governmental concern about the potential threat from emerging technologies tends to focus almost exclusively on fears of evil robots taking over the world(…)e.g Intimate image abuse of women makes up around 96% of all deepfakes, yet a European report on ‘law enforcement and the challenge of deepfakes’ mentions the word ‘women’ just once…

…the coming decades, unravelling those forms of prejudice is going to become a million times harder. Worse, that prejudice might become entrenched and even exacerbated, dragging the most vulnerable in our society backwards as we supposedly hurtle forwards into a glittering new world.”

“We’ve arrived at a critical moment. We are building a whole new world, but the inequalities and oppression of our current society are being baked into its very foundations. And if the harassment and violence that have blighted the lives of women and minorities communities for centuries are being coded into the fabric of the future systems, environments and programs that will form the basis of all lives over…

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“Already, men are using generative AI to create ‘ideal’ companions–the women of their dreams, customised to every last detail, from breast size to eye colour to personality, only lacking the ability to say no.”

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“Already, algorithms used to determine credit offers, healthcare access and court sentencing are in place across the world and have been proven to discriminate actively against women and minorities communities.”

“For many people, the idea of that world seems distant and obscure. They think of these concept as science fiction—future technologies that do not really concern us yet.
But the reality is what we are now living in the early stages of that new world.”

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If they are fed false information, they can give misleading and inaccurate answers, yet make them sounds entirely plausible and factual.”

“But LLMs (large language models) aren’t really ‘thinking’ for themselves. While they might seem to be going ‘off script’, they will usually regurgitate some version of the data they have consumed, or mimic something very similar (if the AI doesn’t know information, it can ‘hallucinate’ something that sounds right).