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I was downvoted 35 days ago, for daring to state that deepfakes will lead to AI being regulated.

Of course “these are just recommendations”, but we’re getting there.

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I suspect the downvoting is more because of the tone of your comments rather than the content. From the HN guidelines:

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.

> Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

A lot of people on HN care deeply about AI and I imagine they're totally interested in discussing deepfakes potentially causing regulation. Just gotta be careful to mute the political sides of the debate, which I know is difficult when talking about regulation.

Also note that I posted a comment 10 days ago with a largely similar meaning without getting downvoted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37956770

Oh I see, people thought I was being right-wingy. That makes sense.

Probably not. Much more likely that your comment was useless. Like this one. It has nothing to with "picking sides", "being right" or "calling it".

Given how long you've been here and your selective replies, I have a hard time taking your comment in good faith, though. It does read like sarcasm and trolling.

The downvote button is not a "disagree" button, you know... I often vote opposite to how I align with opinions in comments, in spirit of promoting valuable discource over echo chambers.

Hmm. It is possible that deepfakes are merely a good excuse. There is real money on the table and potentially world altering changes, which means people with money want to ensure it will not happen to them.

Deepfakes don't affect money much.

I’ve posted this elsewhere in this thread but the consequences of AI have HUGE knock on effects.

https://youtu.be/-gGLvg0n-uY?si=B719mdQFtgpnfWvH

https://youtube.com/shorts/Q_FUrVqvlfM?si=stb0KC_i5rbqfNyI

Once global ID is cracked then global social credit can gain some traction. Etc…

Why would anyone comply though? Let's suppose you need some global id to access the web. What is preventing me from publishing my private key so that anyone can use it? Everyone could participate in this and make it completely useless as an identification mechanism.

My opinion too

It won’t just be regulated, it will create the need for global citizen IDs to combat the overwhelming flood of really distortions caused by AI. We the people will be forced to line up and be counted while the powers that be will have unlimited access to control the narrative.

You The internet lives on popularity, and people will flock to whatever is most popular, it will not be us.gov.social.com it will be easier to give people a free encrypted packaged darknet connection than a good social media site from the government. The CNN or fox background doesn't mean truth and unless you or everyone thinks so that won't happen.

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