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by AstixAndBelix 1161 days ago
AI will just be like fake download buttons. Kids will instinctually learn while older people will believe anything
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That's a false generalization.

You have people of all ages who fall for the oldest tricks in the book and you have people of all ages who know the medium they are using and can see behind the fake.

Just look at all these MLM videos on TikTok and YouTube and their target audience.

Or there's so much bullshit that no one believes anything any more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood

Why would it be the case that LLMs will never achieve exactly-human quality writing?

There’s a reason that no purveyor of fake download buttons is worth $20B+, which is that the technology is capable of completely different things.

If this results in young people disbelieving everything, which we already see early signs of, then that’s also a loss. Probably a bigger loss than them believing the same wrong things as everyone around them.

It doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to be good enough that it can fool most people. Just like a fake download button.
There will probably be a market for anti-ai checkers, just like anti-virus checkers.

(All you have to do is let them snoop on everything you say or do)