Arundhati Roy 谈人工智能的危险
Apocalypse Now and Then
Arundhati Roy 发表一篇关于人工智能危险的犀利随笔，引用希腊神话、Francis Ford Coppola、《圣经》、印度工业史与艾米莉·狄金森，称"AI 时代"（Actual Idiocy）已经到来。文章质疑人们已无法凭直觉判断文字是否出自 AI，只能依赖应用检测，并追问破折号被 AI 占据后，后人是否会因此少爱狄金森、人类是否正被逐渐排除在语言之外。
Leave it to Arundhati Roy to deliver a scorching, dizzying essay on the perils of artificial intelligence that references Greek mythology, Francis Ford Coppola, the Bible, India’s industrial history, and Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! Plus, Emily Dickinson features in the lede:
The auguries are raining down hard. Think or Sink. Comply or Die. Look Up or be Left Out. And so, with these not-so-gentle threats, it has come to pass that the Age of AI—Actual Idiocy, Actual Super Idiocy, Recursive Snowballing-Idiocy—is upon us. Heck, I’ve already used two dashes in this opening paragraph. That, as they say, is a tell. So, perhaps I haven’t written this essay at all. You’d have to use an AI app to check if it’s actually AI, and whether I’m really, or not really, or only partially me. You can no longer use your instincts. You have to use the App. Now that AI owns the em dash, what will future generations make of Emily Dickinson and her love of them? Has she been fed to the machine, too? Will they love her less? Are we being gradually locked out of language? Does it matter anymore?
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