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The danger of Ai doesn't stem from it being possibly exceptionally toxic or anything. The point is, LLMs are already in their present state convincing enough ch
by Loquebantur 3y ago
The danger of Ai doesn't stem from it being possibly exceptionally toxic or anything. The point is, LLMs are already in their present state convincing enough chatbots to fool a majority into believing them to be real people.
If you can take enough of them to task on social media, you can influence public discourse. The slow boil cooks the frog.
Having no place for free constructive open discussion, society is bound to not only stagnate but retardate. Parcellation into echo chambers only exacerbates the problem.
- red-iron-pine 3y ago> The danger of Ai doesn't stem from it being possibly exceptionally toxic or anything. The point is, LLMs are already in their present state convincing enough chatbots to fool a majority into believing them to be real people. I'd bet my hat that a non-trivial number of posts here on HN are, and have been, generated via GPT-3, and before ChatGPT became big. There are definite signs of astroturfing, and you can almost predict which threads are going to have it -- China, Tesla, some BTC discussions. They don't even need to be convincing, just present and in enough volume to drag down or derail discussions; "The Firehose of Falsehood" model.