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Nowhere near that, the largest problem will be when the misinformation will be manufactured on an unprecedented scale by these LLM. In the US alone some 300 000

by _ugfj 3y ago

Nowhere near that, the largest problem will be when the misinformation will be manufactured on an unprecedented scale by these LLM. In the US alone some 300 000 people died from homemade artisan anti vaxx propaganda, it's very scary to think what will happen when GPT switches that to industrial scale. Doctorow called them "plausible sentence generators" and that's indeed what they are and it being plausible will make it deadly. https://www.npr.org/2022/05/16/1099290062/how-many-of-americas-one-million-covid-deaths-were-preventable https://www.npr.org/2022/05/16/1099290062/how-many-of-americ... > As the U.S. marks one million people dead from COVID-19, scientists suggest that nearly one third of those deaths could have been prevented if more people had chosen to be vaccinated.

andsoitis 3y ago
> In the US alone some 300 000 people died from homemade artisan anti vaxx propaganda, it's very scary to think what will happen when GPT switches that to industrial scale. From a human moral viewpoint this is indeed despicable and worth considering mitigation. I am optimistic though that in the grand unfolding that natural selection brings, it will pressure an elevation of rationality, but with the cost of some human suffering.
- chx 3y ago
  Natural selection is not fast enough. It operates over many generations but we know climate change is driving the expansion of zoonotic diseases. Consider within the last generation -- generally understood to be 25 years -- we had a SARS outbreak, swine flu, SARS-CoV-2, mpox outbreak just to name the big ones. It is extremely likely we will have more within the next 25.
  - andsoitis 3y ago
    > Natural selection is not fast enough. It operates over many generations but we know climate change is driving the expansion of zoonotic diseases. Consider within the last generation -- generally understood to be 25 years -- we had a SARS outbreak, swine flu, SARS-CoV-2, mpox outbreak just to name the big ones. It is extremely likely we will have more within the next 25. Perhaps I should not have used "natural selection" but instead a more generic evolutionary principle but that isn't prodicated on biological hereditary. Since the type symbolic reasons arose in our brain matter, our bodies have been vehicles for evolution that transcends the rhythm of offspring.

by _ugfj 3y ago

andsoitis 3y ago

> In the US alone some 300 000 people died from homemade artisan anti vaxx propaganda, it's very scary to think what will happen when GPT switches that to industrial scale. From a human moral viewpoint this is indeed despicable and worth considering mitigation. I am optimistic though that in the grand unfolding that natural selection brings, it will pressure an elevation of rationality, but with the cost of some human suffering.

chx 3y ago
Natural selection is not fast enough. It operates over many generations but we know climate change is driving the expansion of zoonotic diseases. Consider within the last generation -- generally understood to be 25 years -- we had a SARS outbreak, swine flu, SARS-CoV-2, mpox outbreak just to name the big ones. It is extremely likely we will have more within the next 25.
- andsoitis 3y ago
  > Natural selection is not fast enough. It operates over many generations but we know climate change is driving the expansion of zoonotic diseases. Consider within the last generation -- generally understood to be 25 years -- we had a SARS outbreak, swine flu, SARS-CoV-2, mpox outbreak just to name the big ones. It is extremely likely we will have more within the next 25. Perhaps I should not have used "natural selection" but instead a more generic evolutionary principle but that isn't prodicated on biological hereditary. Since the type symbolic reasons arose in our brain matter, our bodies have been vehicles for evolution that transcends the rhythm of offspring.