> "if you can't tell the difference, does it really matter?"
It indeed does. The problem is that societies and cultures are heavily influenced and changed by communication, media, and art.
By replacing big portions of these components with artificial content, generated from previously created content, you run the risk of creating feedback cycles (e.g. train future systems from output of their predecessors) and forming standards (beauty, aesthetics, morality, etc.) controlled by the entities that build, train, and filter the output of the AIs.
You'll basically run the risk of killing individuality and diversity in culture and expression; consequences on society as a whole and individual behaviour are difficult to predict, but seeing how much power social media (an unprecedented phenomenon in human culture) have, there's reason to at the very least be cautious about this.
This problem affects all types of agents - natural or artificial. Agent acts in the environment, this causes experience and learning, and thus conditioning the future. The agent has no idea what other opportunities are lost behind past choices.
It indeed does. The problem is that societies and cultures are heavily influenced and changed by communication, media, and art.
By replacing big portions of these components with artificial content, generated from previously created content, you run the risk of creating feedback cycles (e.g. train future systems from output of their predecessors) and forming standards (beauty, aesthetics, morality, etc.) controlled by the entities that build, train, and filter the output of the AIs.
You'll basically run the risk of killing individuality and diversity in culture and expression; consequences on society as a whole and individual behaviour are difficult to predict, but seeing how much power social media (an unprecedented phenomenon in human culture) have, there's reason to at the very least be cautious about this.