Zuckerburg changing FB to Meta & saying they're going to be concentrating on virtual reality is not good news. It could be a fast track to the worst things possible. Anyone will be able to create holograms of the prez talking, for instance, but you won't really know if it's her.
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your heart is in the right place but you’re a little wrong on this one. that won’t be coming from the metaverse—although it may make its way into it eventually—it is already happening outside of it. VR doesn’t implicitly have anything to do with deepfaking of audio and video
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Replying to @eventualghost1
Nothing like how it will be happening with this.

Oct 28, 2021 · 7:06 PM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
i went into a longer explanation in my comments. but the short story is: it will eventually be just as dangerous and more, but VR worlds aren’t far enough along yet to do the things you mentioned, and socially we won’t put as much valence in VR content as “real world” for a while
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Now it will have the money & heft of *Zuckerberg* behind it. That takes it to a whole new place; we can't know how quickly or slowly it will progress. I doubt he would have done it if he weren't already pretty far along. We have to concern ourselves with both real AND unreal now
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Replying to @marwilliamson @eventualghost1
You're right, Marianne; Meta + VR seems like an attempt to "fully" manipulate the minds of the world's population (which is currently being "moderately" manipulated). What's the solution? Make RR (Real Reality) more compelling and meaningful than VR for people.
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