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by squigz
676 days ago
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We have adapted to monumental shifts in how we develop trust in society for as long as society has existed - from the printing press to photography to the Internet to CGI to ... I don't see this as any different. We will determine new ways of establishing trust. They'll certainly have flaws, as establishing trust in a society always has, but we'll learn to recognize those flaws and hopefully fix them. Beyond that, what's the alternative? Banning the technology? That doesn't seem feasible for various reasons, not least of which is it isn't going to stop bad actors. Another pretty good reason is it's just not really possible - anyone with enough compute can build LLMs now. As a bit of an aside, why hasn't society fallen yet? I mean, ChatGPT has been around for a couple years now, and I've been hearing about how LLMs are the single greatest threat to civilized society we've ever faced... yet they don't seem to have had a major impact. |
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Now it's utterly simplistic to forge, to libel, to slander, and there is no easy path in many cases to sue.
While you can say "yes, but..." to the above, that's the reality that we've lived with for 150 years, less extremely rare edge cases. All this has changed over the course of a couple of decades, with most of that change in the last 10, and focuses on the last 2 years.
Beyond that, it took significant effort and labour to create fake stories and images. People had to be experts, or be wordsmiths. Now, click click, and fake generated stories abound. In fact, they're literally everywhere. There's absolutely no comparison here.
Now, in the time it used to take one person to generate one fake story, you can generate millions and trillions if you have the cash. Really, it's the same problem with spam phone calls, and with spam email.
You didn't get 1000 spam letters in the mail in the 80s, because that cost money. Email was free, thus spam became plentiful. The same with spam phone calls, it cost hard cash for each call, now it's pennies per hundreds of automated calls, so spam phone calls abound.
The same is happening with all content on the internet. Realistically the web is now dead. It's now gone. Even things such as wikipedia are going to die, as over the next 2 to 3 years LLM output will become utterly and completely indistinguishable in all aspects.