[newsclues]

What one person can do with a phone may be concerning, but what a small group of well funded actors can do can be a real problem.

[mhitza]

And there's also the question of what data is fed into the system. And how bias is adjusted.

At one point I asked ChatGPT to tell me if there were any issues with a specific credit union, and it ranted in a negative way about (the generic concept) of credit unions. I had to point out multiple times that it can find handful of controversies for the larger established banks, yet it insisted keeping a more pessimistic opinion of unions.

This kind of information is a problem, even when ignoring outright hallucinated false facts (like being casually called a sex offender; recent article about an artist going through this matter), or this example.