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> Social Media, Influencer culture, Creators, and a Ad-tech driven surveillance I think it does help those. You've seen how the early models had to be taken of
by jhanschoo 4y ago
> Social Media, Influencer culture, Creators, and a Ad-tech driven surveillance
I think it does help those. You've seen how the early models had to be taken off because teenagers trained models to be bigots. If there's a widely-deployed model that uses near-contemporary data, it would be the prime target for all kinds of promotion, influence, disinformation and product placement just like how Google became one such. The reasonable, useful replies that current models give you may become a thing of a past once people start to target LLMs for the same things that they today target Google's search, and you will have the same SEO arms race, albeit probably harder to combat considering how much more opaque LLMs probably are compared to Google's search algorithms.
Perhaps the good useful information that we get from LLMs today are more a product of them being trained on paid content of high quality that aren't widely distributed.