> I'm concerned at what people can and will use them for to the detriment of our civilisation Maybe? But there's already all sorts of untapped resources for th

> I'm concerned at what people can and will use them for to the detriment of our civilisation Maybe? But there's already all sorts of untapped resources for that - and we mostly just don't choose to use them. A lot of the misinformation and "fake news" that came out during prior election cycles in the US came from former Soviet bloc countries, and there is already significant untapped human capital in those places where it could be done for cheap, perhaps even cheaper than the cost of doing inference on premiere LLMs. Meanwhile we see all sorts of efficiency improvements occurring for generally positive use cases from these LLMs, and it is hardly unique for technology to have some risks to it as well as positive benefits. Things like GPT and Midjourney have been a qualitative leap over their predecessors from two decades ago, but they fundamentally are not doing something new - and even another qualitative leap wouldn't bring them to the level of existential threat that this letter seems to be afraid of. I think there are significant and real concerns about AGI and similar, but I can't seem to find any reason to share these same concern around the types of "AI" we are seeing today.