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Remember that underrated (yet very entertainingly cheesy) 80s Schwarzenegger film “The Running Man?” The plot basically involves a scenario in which Arnold is framed (using a falsified audio recording of his voice) and accused of opening fire on innocent civilians.
He is then arrested and given the “option” to compete on a twisted reality TV game show (ironically hosted by family Feud tv personality Richard Dawson) wherein he must outrun game show superhero-type characters whose goal is to hunt him down and kill him...on live TV! —the prize—if he wins (which the contestants never do) is his freedom. He basically spends the whole movie trying to fend off bad guys while simultaneously attempting to prove that he is a GOOD guy who was set up! Meanwhile the audience (in studio and “at home” root against him, having long since been convinced of his guilt. After all, they heard the audio evidence with their own ears. Well, it seems that AI technology has now caught up to the creative imagination of the 1980s. Implications are a little creepy! https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/blog-posts/i-didnt-say-that/ (Whatever you think of this guy, he raises some seriously valid points.) But what can be done to put the genie back in the bottle? Anything? |