It's actually not all that wrong. ChatGPT is a bit like the Snowden leaks - making the public aware of capabilities that have existed (and which have gone throu

It's actually not all that wrong. ChatGPT is a bit like the Snowden leaks - making the public aware of capabilities that have existed (and which have gone through generations of development) outside of the public eye for a long time. I remember going out for drinks during ACM Supercomputing 2011 with a gaggle of talkative folks working for a gov't contractor on (social media) profile management and content generation (i.e. astroturf) for the military and intelligence sector, both for tradecraft and influence purposes. The sector was rolling in dough then, because throwing humans at the problem (even if it scaled) makes maintaining operational security and message discipline hard. I'm not sure that a majority of ALL "user-generated content" on the internet that is seen by actual humans is synthetic, but I am pretty sure that it is true for topics of strategic or commercial interest to all kinds of parties. (The tech is pretty democratized now.)