CYBERGEM
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4:48 · 581K views · Feb 6, 2023
A fan-made Metal Gear Solid 2 codec call using AI voice synthesis, in which the Colonel warns Raiden about using AI to censor the internet and enforce digital ID. It riffs on the game's 'Selection for Societal Sanity' conversation.
HN users post it as a meme or satirical comment in threads about AI regulation, age verification and online identity.
15 comments from Hacker News
This is a meme video but I think it hits the nail on the head. TLDR: AI will force global online digital ID for everyone that uses the internet for the exact reason you mentioned. And that would forever change free speech forever allowing the powers that be to put the genie "back in the bottle" so to speak. link: Raiden Warned About AI Censorship - this video
> I think that, ultimately, systems that humans use to interact on the internet will have to ditch anonymity. Relevant meme video (which watching is in my opinion worth your time): Raiden Warned About AI Censorship - MGS2 Codec Call (2023 Version) this video
Correct, and it's to put the genii back in the bottle so to speak. Great video on how AI is being actively used to break the internet. Cause a problem, provide the solution. this video
You're not thinking more than one step ahead. If you let a third party define who "has ID", "is human", etc. you give that third party control over you. You already gave control of your attention away to the sites who host the UGC, now you also give away control of your sense of reality. At any point they can tell a real human what they can and can't say, and if they go against their masters, their "real human" status is revoked, because you trust the platform and not the person. If we want to go full conspiritard, we could accuse those of wanting to control speech to be the financial backers of those flooding social media with AI slop: this video -- this fictional video thematically marries Metal Gear Solid 2's plot with current events: "perfect AI speech, audio and video synthesis will drown out reality [...] That is when we will present our solution: mandatory digital identity verification for all humans at all times"
All joking aside I firmly believe that this “crisis” is manufactured or at least heavily influenced by those that want to shut down the internet and free communications. Up until now they have been unsuccessful. Copyright infringement, hate speech, misinformation, disinformation, child exploitation, deep fakes, none have worked to garner support. Now we have an existential threat. Video, audio, text, nothin is off limits and soon it will be in real time (note: the GOV tries to stay 25 years ahead of the private sector). This meme video incapsulates this perfectly. this video Mark my words, in five years or less we will be begging the governments of earth to implement permanent global real time tracking for every man woman and child on earth. Privacy is dead. And WE killed it.