> ChatGPT is very expensive Is it? I mean it only cost a few million to train and it's cheap enough to provide free and open access to... It's quite cheap comp

> ChatGPT is very expensive Is it? I mean it only cost a few million to train and it's cheap enough to provide free and open access to... It's quite cheap compared to how much some software companies will spend building a product and for how long they'll operate at a loss. I don't really know what you mean by a "trap" though. ChatGPT is a fairly good tool if used right. Given its dubious level of accuracy a the moment I doubt anyone is using it to form political opinions, but maybe I'm being naive. The real risk I see would be future AIs which are reliable enough to trust, but have unknown goals both due to AI alignment challenges and their secretive training and fine tuning by corporations. Although I'd argue this is just another iteration of the same problem we have with researching things using tools like Google and Wikipedia today. Google clearly bias certain results, but for the average query they are a reliable resource which gives a false sense of trust. Similarly, Wikipedia's academic articles are generally of a very high quality which leads some people to falsely trust the more opinionated articles. ChatGPT is just one of many tech products which will be used to influence people. A trap would imply we don't already know this.