[sasas]

I can't help but think that there will be almost certainty that in the near future it will be near impossible to distinguish the difference between human generated and machine generated media.

While this technical demonstration is a long way from replacing "real podcasts", it's just the very beginning.

What are the implications here?

[drcode]

Well, the main implication I would think is that we will want media to be digitally signed by human individuals that have a reputation

So a person will "vouch" for content, and we consume the media vouched for by people in our white list

We won't be able to consume media outside of the whitelist, because it will just contain too much noise

[dingaling]

However, machine-generated media relies on the existence of human-generated media. It's always third-hand.

An AI can't sit in a dusty archive room and draw inferences from hand-written minutes. It can't interview the survivor of a tragedy or the winner of a trophy. AI software depends on sentient wetwear to generate the fundamental content.

[berniedurfee]

Terrifying. It’s like a pre-alpha version of dystopia.

Between this and the advances in robotics, it feels like we’re within decades of some really tough times for humanity.

We could also be within decades of utopia. But my money is on these technologies being used in bad ways far more often than for good. Hopefully I’m just overly cynical!

Good luck kiddos!