5 ms·
> Now we can't trust text, the most trusted medium in human history, and then what? I don't understand what you mean by this. Isn't text the least trusted medi
by Trasmatta 6y ago
> Now we can't trust text, the most trusted medium in human history, and then what?
I don't understand what you mean by this. Isn't text the least trusted medium? Anyone can easily try to impersonate anyone else in text. Going by your argument of trust, shouldn't we be more afraid of deepfake videos? Or even more accurately, deepfake videos paired with something like GPT-3.
- atq2119 6y agoYes, we should also be afraid of deepfake. With GPT-3, the issue isn't so much being able to impersonate somebody, but the ability to generate human-seeming text at scale. This allows you to create a false perception of public sentiment by maintaining fake accounts on online forums, writing fake letters to the editor, to politicians, and so on. On the flip side, this is already possible today with content farms, and perhaps GPT-3 can save us by being the thing that finally erodes our trust in these signals. One thing is sure though, it drives yet another arms race, and arms races are always a net loss for society.