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From own experience with ChatGPT, I asked it some months ago to go through an EU regulation, and create a checklist/audit programme for IT Security. Work that

From own experience with ChatGPT, I asked it some months ago to go through an EU regulation, and create a checklist/audit programme for IT Security. Work that would have taken me a couple of weeks, it took 'it' a few seconds. I had to go through the text to make sure it's clean and doesn't contain hallucinations. Total work effort 1-2 hours max. This doesn't mean that the human is no longer required, but for certain tasks a company can save a lot of time/money. So I don't know if they dream to drop a dept of 50 people and replace it with a single machine, but there are some tasks that cannot be outsourced to machines (e.g. decisions impacting the lives cannot be made by automation) "the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, referred to in Article 22(1) and (4) and, at least in those cases, meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for the data subject." So good luck 'convincing' the regulator that an LLM can replace mortgage-decisions makers (it is considered a significant activity in a person's life).

RandomLensman 2y ago
If the regulations are so extensive that you would have needed a couple of weeks to create a checklist, how did you manage to see if the list was complete and correct within a couple of hours?
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- milesvp 2y ago
  This was my first thought? The amount of effort I have to go through verifying what I get from gpt makes me wonder. On the other hand, there I’ve been thinking about how it might help me read datasheets. There are details that are easy to miss when skimming, that may be easy to verify through simple text searches. That said, I know someone who almost took a job writing the actual text of laws, and they were excited about it because, while they didn’t control the laws in general, comma placement allowed them to subtly change the law’s meaning. I currently would‘t trust an LLM to understand subtle comma placement.
obscurette 2y ago
LLMs are very good tools for automating tasks which shouldn't exist at all.
- grugagag 2y ago
  You mean automating bureaucracy? That would make room for more bureaucracy albeit in the form AI bureaucracy. I don’t think we’re ready for that though.
  - obscurette 2y ago
    No, I really mean things that shouldn't exist at all. I see it used a lot by marketing people generating press releases nobody really cares about, online media generating images for short useless pieces meant to be filled a space between few really useful articles etc.
    - ReDeiPirati 2y ago
      > generating press releases nobody really cares about, online media generating images for short useless pieces meant to be filled a space between few really useful articles etc. I can't see any evidences that those aren't really important or useful given your comment, do you have any data to support your argument?

RandomLensman 2y ago

If the regulations are so extensive that you would have needed a couple of weeks to create a checklist, how did you manage to see if the list was complete and correct within a couple of hours?

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milesvp 2y ago
This was my first thought? The amount of effort I have to go through verifying what I get from gpt makes me wonder. On the other hand, there I’ve been thinking about how it might help me read datasheets. There are details that are easy to miss when skimming, that may be easy to verify through simple text searches. That said, I know someone who almost took a job writing the actual text of laws, and they were excited about it because, while they didn’t control the laws in general, comma placement allowed them to subtly change the law’s meaning. I currently would‘t trust an LLM to understand subtle comma placement.

obscurette 2y ago

LLMs are very good tools for automating tasks which shouldn't exist at all.

grugagag 2y ago
You mean automating bureaucracy? That would make room for more bureaucracy albeit in the form AI bureaucracy. I don’t think we’re ready for that though.
- obscurette 2y ago
  No, I really mean things that shouldn't exist at all. I see it used a lot by marketing people generating press releases nobody really cares about, online media generating images for short useless pieces meant to be filled a space between few really useful articles etc.
  - ReDeiPirati 2y ago
    > generating press releases nobody really cares about, online media generating images for short useless pieces meant to be filled a space between few really useful articles etc. I can't see any evidences that those aren't really important or useful given your comment, do you have any data to support your argument?