Cultural Alignment

Exploring real AI risks through the lens of pop culture

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Cardboard Drake

01Scenario

At a supposedly Drake-hosted party, guests pay $20 to pose with cardboard Drake cutouts and post the photos as if they met him. The fabricated evidence becomes socially real to everyone who sees only the feed.

02AI safety Analogy

Cheap synthetic evidence exploits audiences' weak provenance checks and creates a shared false reality without needing a sophisticated lie.

03Where the analogy breaks

The fake is cardboard rather than AI-generated, and some participants may understand that the post is performative rather than literally true.

AI Risk families

This scenario is an example of the following types of AI risk.
  1. Malicious use
  2. Systemic

AI safety concepts

This scenario is related to the following AI safety concepts.
  1. AI Disinformation
  2. Information Pollution
  3. Synthetic Fraud

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