[Rochus]

> highly plausible fiction which oftentimes happens to be factually correct

Isn't this also a way to describe what the press gives us every day? I think the dangers you describe existed long before GPT.

[_nalply]

Of course. But it is unfair to compare press and AI. Press just gives you text.

[Rochus]

> But it is unfair to compare press and AI. Press just gives you text.

The press I know has a lot of pictures. And the comparison is not unfair at all. Both are Parrots repeating and recombining information from somewhere else, or just inventing new noises if there is nothing to copy.