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by throwaway4233 1177 days ago
We already have several instances where social media was used to feed fake information and agitate people into rioting or acts of violence.

Imagine what would happen if we have these LLM tools, that aid in improving the story telling experience and generate and act as different personas. Having tools that can pretend to be a human even in limited capacity is quite dangerous.
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noirscape 1177 days ago
At least the biggest short-form social media site is currently being self-destructed. ChatGPT tends to hide itself for the longest if the responses it gives out are short and snippy. That would be a disaster in the hands of any actor looking to mass create unique-ish propaganda (ie. Russia), but at least that avenue is being closed off due to Musks boneheadedness.

For longer responses, it tends to follow extremely predictable sentence structure and meanders off quite a bit, so spotting it is kinda easy.

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ModernMech 1177 days ago
Right? Imagine a bot not only putting up a website, but a constellation of website, generating all the conversations there, generating news articles, imagery, sound, and video to go with it, and also evolving them in real time based on social media response. Today media companies A/B test their stories; in the future, AI will A/B test entire media companies.
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