Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look and an ever-changing culture through the lens of

unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

There is no shortage of films predicting the dangers of rogue artificial intelligence, just think Terminator,

the Matrix I robot, Avengers the Age of Ultron to name just a few.

Perhaps these dystopian science fiction will one day become fact, but for now at least, AI's not really poised to in AI tried to summarize Clay Thompson's poor shooting performance in the NBA playoff play-in game,

the typically reliable Golden State Warrior, shot an abysmal O-for-10 that night from the three-point line at a loss to the Sacramento Kings.

And pulling from various online fan content teasing Thompson for throwing up bricks, Grock generated

a story that reported how Thompson vandalized several people's houses with actual bricks.

Look, as a USA Today piece recently observed, at least on its own, AIs clearly is still working out some kings. But of course, AIs not on its own, AI's clearly is still working out some kinks. But of course, AI's not on its own,

at least not for now. The real threat then remains fallen humans using AI to spread falsehood

to gain power to hurt others and to try to become superhuman.

And examples of that also about, writing recently in the Wall Street Journal,

Jack Brewster described, and I quote here, how I built an AI-powered self-running propaganda machine for 105 bucks.

In fact, it took Brewster just two days to launch this so-called Pink Slim News site

that was capable of generating and publishing thousands of false stories a day

using artificial intelligence and which could sell fun through generating ads.

The whole process required, as he put it, no expertise whatsoever.

And it could be tailored to suit whatever political bias or candidates he wanted.

Readers would have no clear way of distinguishing the auto-generated fake stories from the

real journalism, or of knowing that the Buckeye State Press, the name Brewster assigned to this phony website, was only a computer making things up according to his political specifications.

Even worse, the one human that Brewster did speak with in the process of setting up this site

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