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by oluminate 740 days ago
I think the risk of the proliferation of disinformation with generated video, audio, images, and text present a broad existential risk to human society as far as internet use is concerned — if the future involves the humankind engaging with both a public internet and llms, I feel like those circumstances might also lead to:

- increasingly censored, controlled, curated gate-kept providers - an inherent lack of trust in public facing information - outright bans on information access

So ushering llms could be an undo the rate of societal and economic progress, create conditions for widespread political and social unrest, and create vacuums for authoritarian leaders and information brokers to consolidate control and power