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2 years agoAccurate news is only accessible to people who can read it. And sadly, a majority of the US lacks the literacy skills to do that. Additionally, voter suppression in the US is becoming increasingly common with some nonprofits seeing the US becoming less democratic over time. Combine this with recent efforts to sabotage education even more, and it becomes unlikely that voting will meaningfully change anything.
To add on to what others have said, vibe coding is ushering in a new golden age for black hat hackers. If someone is rely entirely on AI to generate code they likely don’t understand what the code they have is actually doing. This tends to lead to an app that works correctly for what the prompted specified but behaves badly the instant it has to handle anything outside of the prompt, like a malformed request or data outside the prompted parameters. As a result these apps tend to be easy to exploit by malicious actors, often in ways the original prompter never thought of.