# Generative Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, and Image Synthesis

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**Category:** The Happening World\
**Tags:** chatgpt, image-synthesis, large-language-model, artificial-intelligence, generative-transformer\
**Created:** [2 December 2022 16:12 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/generative-artificial-intelligence-large-language-models-and-image-synthesis/2383 "2022-12-02T16:12:04Z")\
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A hypothetical automated news architecture:

> **[Inside CounterCloud: A Fully Autonomous AI Disinformation System - The Debrief](https://thedebrief.org/countercloud-ai-disinformation/)**
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> CounterCloud, a totally autonomous AI disinformation system, gives a glimpse into how AI and disinformation will work together in the future.

And a reminder about what’s at stake:

> The most pressing threat to humanity in the years to come will come not from autonomous machines but from programmed _people_.
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> Though not recognized as such, extremely unreliable and flawed forms of these programmed devices, in the guise of human beings, have been around for thousands of years. Legions of soldiers marching unquestioningly to their deaths, religious cultists accepting articles of faith without doubt, individuals at the mercy of delusions and hallucinations . . . all, in retrospect, can be characterized at their most extreme moments, as behaving like what we now characterize as ‘robotic’.

> **[The New Species of Intelligent Robots—Human Beings and the Conspiracy to...](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-species-intelligent-robotshuman-beings-conspiracy-william-davidow/)**
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> By William Davidow Author—The Autonomous Revolution—Reclaiming the Future We’ve Sold to Machines The most pressing threat to humanity in the years to come will come not from autonomous machines but from programmed people. Though not recognized as...

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