TL;DR
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Snapchat influencer Caryn Marjorie used ChatGPT to create CarynAIa virtual girlfriend offers virtual companionship for a dollar a minute.
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CarynAI currently has 1,000 friends and has racked up a cool $71.6k in revenue for IRL Marj after just one week!
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With something like CaryAI, users know what they’re getting into… but what happens if we don’t know that the content we’re consuming is AI-generated?
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AI generated content + social bots = fake news on a scale we’ve never seen before.
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In the not too distant future, news media companies will need a solution that publicly verifies that content is their own (blockchain).
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Everyone is worried about AI taking their jobs, when it’s really here to take their girlfriends.
(Who would have thought that?)
Fair warning: We’re about to jump from AI girlfriends to fake news, to blockchain technology, in shocking succession – so grab something solid.
We’ll start with AI girlfriends.
Snapchat influencer Caryn Marjorie used ChatGPT to create CarynAIa virtual girlfriend offers virtual companionship for a dollar a minute.
CarynAI currently has 1,000 friends and has racked up a cool $71.6k in revenue for IRL Marj after just one week!
(FREAKIN’ WILD!).
…which got us thinking about Facebook, the 2016 US election and the future of information security/authentication.
How did we make that leap? No idea! (Send help).
Here’s the rabbit hole we went down…
With something like CaryAI, users know what they’re getting into… but what happens if we don’t know that the content we’re consuming is AI-generated?
If it’s a blog post detailing a great bolognese recipe, we probably don’t care.
But if the news is during an election cycle? Things can get messy. AI does a half-decent job of fabricating text, audio, and graphics that feel real…
AI generated content + social bots = fake news on a scale we’ve never seen before.
When word got out that Facebook was being used to spread misinformation in the 2016 US election, we all learned to take a closer look at our news sources.
(Don’t recognize the news media brand you are watching/reading? The information you get may not be reliable).
It’s not far off to envision a day when AI can be trained on the thousands of hours of coverage of a major news channel, to fabricate news content that is indistinguishable from the real thing.
Which brings us to blockchain:
With all of the above in mind, in the not-too-distant future, news media companies will need a solution that publicly verifies that the content belongs to them.
While it’s boring, it could well be how we’re seeing ALL major social platforms completely and completely adopt blockchain technology for the first time (besides NFTs as profile pictures).
The ‘10,000 ft view’ of this solution might look something like this:
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News media companies store their content as NFTs on a low-cost blockchain.
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The social platforms create an integration that looks for the verified metadata stored in these NFTs.
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If a photo/video is shown to be from a particular source, but cannot be verified down the chain, it will be listed as an ‘unverified source’ in the News Feed.
Phew…okay, we made it through. How’s your neck? A whiplash?
