Bruce Scheneir, May 2024
https://www.schneier.com/academic/archives/2024/06/ai-will-i...
I am seeing a stream of comments on Reddit that are entirely ai driven, and even bots which are engaging in conversations. Worst case scenarios I’m looking at will mean it’s better to assume everyone online is a bot.
I know of cases where people have been duped into buying stocks because of an AI generated version of a publicly known VP of a financial firm.
Then there’s the case where someone didn’t follow email hygiene and got into a zoom call with what appeared to be their CFO and team members, and transferred several million dollars out of the firm.
And it’s only 2-3 years into this lovely process. The future is so bleak that just talking about this with people not involved with looking at these things call it nihilism.
It’s so bad that talking about it is like punching hope.