[prakhar897]

I also wrote an article a while ago in the same vein. https://prakgupta.com/blog/envisioning_a_future_with_gpt

The largest problem with a gpt future imo would be bot networks creating manufactured outrage. these will shift the decisions of policymakers towards those who controls these networks ie big corp.

[_ugfj]

Nowhere near that, the largest problem will be when the misinformation will be manufactured on an unprecedented scale by these LLM. In the US alone some 300 000 people died from homemade artisan anti vaxx propaganda, it's very scary to think what will happen when GPT switches that to industrial scale. Doctorow called them "plausible sentence generators" and that's indeed what they are and it being plausible will make it deadly.

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/16/1099290062/how-many-of-americ...

> As the U.S. marks one million people dead from COVID-19, scientists suggest that nearly one third of those deaths could have been prevented if more people had chosen to be vaccinated.

[andsoitis]

> In the US alone some 300 000 people died from homemade artisan anti vaxx propaganda, it's very scary to think what will happen when GPT switches that to industrial scale.

From a human moral viewpoint this is indeed despicable and worth considering mitigation.

I am optimistic though that in the grand unfolding that natural selection brings, it will pressure an elevation of rationality, but with the cost of some human suffering.

[chx]

Natural selection is not fast enough. It operates over many generations but we know climate change is driving the expansion of zoonotic diseases. Consider within the last generation -- generally understood to be 25 years -- we had a SARS outbreak, swine flu, SARS-CoV-2, mpox outbreak just to name the big ones. It is extremely likely we will have more within the next 25.

[andsoitis]

> Natural selection is not fast enough. It operates over many generations but we know climate change is driving the expansion of zoonotic diseases. Consider within the last generation -- generally understood to be 25 years -- we had a SARS outbreak, swine flu, SARS-CoV-2, mpox outbreak just to name the big ones. It is extremely likely we will have more within the next 25.

Perhaps I should not have used "natural selection" but instead a more generic evolutionary principle but that isn't prodicated on biological hereditary. Since the type symbolic reasons arose in our brain matter, our bodies have been vehicles for evolution that transcends the rhythm of offspring.