Everyone will be able to freely access all kinds of information.
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- Information you don’t want others to see can be exposed. Once exposed, it’s difficult to remove, and in some cases, many people spread it until it becomes impossible to stop.
- A lot of fake or inaccurate information is mixed in with useful information. Without the ability to distinguish truth from falsehood, you can be led to believe rumors and lies, making it impossible to make sound judgments.
- Access to age-inappropriate, violent, or criminal content is too easy.
- The risk of infection by programs containing harmful mechanisms (malware) is increasing.
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You can meet and connect with people from all over the world.
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- It’s easy to connect with malicious individuals or organizations. Since it’s simple to pretend to be a good person online, it’s hard to spot them.
- The feeling of “being connected” becomes addictive. Deliberate exclusion from groups, like bullying, also tends to occur easily.
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Individuals can easily publish their thoughts worldwide, creating diverse and democratic forums for discourse.
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- People with similar ideas or preferences tend to gather together, easily escalating those shared views and preferences into extremes. Groups that vent their frustrations onto the vulnerable, such as xenophobic or discriminatory groups, are particularly prone to forming.
- Extreme, biased ideas and sensational information spread more easily than serious ideas and information.
- Online debates often struggle to bridge differing opinions, frequently devolving into fruitless exchanges (flaming).
- Information sites driven by advertising revenue proliferate indiscriminately, burying conscientious sites.
- Fragments of information casually shared online can be pieced together by third parties, allowing malicious actors to easily identify personal information.
- Purchase histories, browsing histories, and search histories are accumulated and integrated, enabling the identification of individual tendencies. This allows entities (corporations, states) to exploit human psychological weaknesses and powerfully influence individual decision-making.
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You can easily search for various information and obtain useful programs and materials for free.
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- A vast amount of copyright-infringing materials and programs are being made publicly available. It is difficult to enforce against them.
- Because information is so easily accessible, people’s ability to think for themselves, create, and conduct field research is declining. The advent of AI is accelerating this decline exponentially.
- People gravitate toward information that is readily available for free, leading to a deterioration in information quality.
- It becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish truth from falsehood. Newspapers and books are read less, the number and quality of trained journalists decline, and information quality deteriorates further. The advent of AI is accelerating this decline even more.
- Mechanisms for profiting from sensationalist information dissemination are provided, allowing the attention economy to proliferate. This enables the explosive spread of unverified information, increasingly influencing politics.
- Programs may incorporate malicious mechanisms. Unwittingly, users can become stepping stones for cybercrime, unwittingly aiding criminal activities.
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Online shopping will make purchasing goods easy. Furthermore, anyone will be able to create an online store and start a business with minimal capital.
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- Large corporations with massive development capabilities lock customers into convenient features, monopolizing global wealth and growing so large they threaten nations. The internet has created a system where the world’s wealth accumulates in the hands of just a handful of people.
- Small shops lose customers to online stores and go out of business one after another.
- Personal information is exploited by corporations, malicious groups, or individuals without the user’s knowledge. Information about a person’s actions and preferences is used to control their purchasing behavior. Such personal information is bought and sold as a commodity.
- Malicious groups or individuals may steal credit card information, leading to financial losses.
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It offers convenient features such as video calls and tracking your current location via GPS.
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- If location data from cameras, microphones, and GPS leaks onto the network, personal privacy becomes completely exposed to outsiders. Personal information is being used by others without your knowledge.
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