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We are potentially on the cusp of profound social change instigated by developing technologies. A couple of days ago, a high school phys-ed teacher from Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States, attempted to frame his boss, the principal, as a racist anti-Semite. He used widely available audio-visual AI to impersonate his voice and emailed the fake recording pseudo-anonymously. It spread like wildfire, and the principal nearly had his life ruined. The phys-ed teacher, a black leftist, was under investigation by the board for misallocating funds by paying his roommate under the table to be his coaching assistant, among other things. The melanated gentleman, Dazhon Darien, fled shortly after the fact and was caught halfway across the country at an airport following a random warrant check, as the FBI got involved. For a moment, he really thought he had taken out that kkkraka son of Yakub.
We are entering a very different world. Chances are it’s going to be dystopian, but not the cool kind of dystopian where you wear a long coat and eat noodles in the rain by a neon-lit food court, mysteriously slurping the delicious MSG and microplastic broth of synthetic meat and tofu while ads featuring the beautiful faces of Ana de Armas or Sydney Sweeney as parasocial AI girlfriends blast your senses on a 50 foot electronic billboard. Instead, it’s more like being thrown in a gulag because some autogynephile stalked your social media, made a recording of your voice, and reported you for doin a heckin’ racism online (let's be real, they didn't have to fake it).
A normal person might be looking at this situation and feeling confused. How will we verify if anything is true anymore? What sick mind would not only conceive this technology but use it in such a manner to potentially destroy another person's life? People have bills to pay; they have mouths to feed (though these days, the mouths more often than not belong to dogs or plants). "Deepfakes" are one thing. It's less believable that a person would randomly have hardcore porn floating out there on the internet—or is it? Thirteen million out of the U.S.'s 342 million people have an OnlyFans, mostly women. That's 4% of the population. It's another thing entirely to fabricate evidence of the most profound sin in our modern religion: racism. The Manageois and their useful idiots are already using this technology. Darien wasn't very smart, though, because a smart person wouldn't have used a traceable email. For a moment, let's step away from individual spiteful mutants using advanced technology for personal gain against racial targets wytpipo.
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