[atoav]

> LLM has a lot of use cases where it can be enormously productive

The great chance of LLMs is of course assistive technology, where human actors and LLMs collaborate to do tasks. I am afraid however that what will shape the impact of LLMs on humanity much more is a different thing: Throught history there was always a certain number of people a dictator had to be at good terms with in order to stay in power. My fear is, that this number will become smaller, because it will be much easier to give the realistic impression that you have the support.

Existing concepts of reality and truth will definitly be completely and utterly destroyed by LLMs, and even actual, real information will be tainted by the fact that it could be fake – we are already seeing today on a smaller scale what living in such a world feels like if we look how societies in a post-truth environment operate.

My prediction (and I'd love to be wrong on that) is that the negative use of LLMs will outweigh positive use significantly, because it favours use cases where you don't have to care about correctness.

[jvm___]

Existing concepts of reality and truth will definitly be completely and utterly destroyed by LLMs, and even actual, real information will be tainted by the fact that it could be fake – we are already seeing today on a smaller scale what living in such a world feels like if we look how societies in a post-truth environment operate.

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Did Donald Trump supporters dye their hair orange in support?

Yes they did... (news article supporting the idea, complete with photos and video (with audio))

I almost fear for any history that has been digitized.

History is written by the victors, and AI is looking like a victor at this point.