Well, I see dangers at every level. Partly because I see a whole bunch of people saying "the real danger of AI is…" and then finishing that sentence in a different way than the others.
So:
> - scammers are having the time of their lives, and their capabilities are only going to get better and easier
Yup. This is one reason why I am frustrated with all the people who keep asking for downloadable models and who criticise OpenAI for not doing that. If it's a private model, you've at least got some control over the system, some ability to see who is doing what and perhaps making your own automation to stop it or to prosecute the wrongdoers.
If the weights are downloadable, you're giving this ability away and pretending you're not responsible for the result.
If OpenAI and Facebook both get sued out of existence due to their models allowing this, the OpenAI models go offline, the Facebook models remain circulating forever.
> - people are actively getting dumber as they trust the hallucinated outputs blindly
Roll to disbelieve. People have been saying this about every new tech at least since Socrates was moping about the invention of writing.
> - regular communication is starting to break down because you can't trust that people aren't just copy/pasting some AI bullshit in lieu of an actual discussion
Yup. Been accused of that myself, here.
I'm fairly sure it's improved the content of r/HFY though. I think I can recognise the stories which are AI generated from having played around with it (and been unsatisfied with the results), but I remember how much worse it was before.
> - I've already seen AI girlfriend products which doesn't strike much confidence in our ongoing future as a species considering the numbers I've seen on some of them
I think the bigger problem is two older AIs, specifically (1) whatever Match.com uses to pair people in their dating apps and how much worse this seems to be than the original (pre-Match.com) OkCupid, and (2) everything Facebook does.
Both make real human connection much harder than endless swiping, it's just that the former is swiping sideways and the latter swiping vertically, but both make para-social relationships out of people we should be genuinely connected to.
> "Oh but UBI!", an AI sycophant will shout, as if saying the magic incantation changes the reality of the real world somehow.
I… think we need that, in step with AI making people unemployable, even if only to avoid a riot, but I'd agree UBI isn't going to fix any of the other problems you're worried about.
Well, I see dangers at every level. Partly because I see a whole bunch of people saying "the real danger of AI is…" and then finishing that sentence in a different way than the others.
So:
> - scammers are having the time of their lives, and their capabilities are only going to get better and easier
Yup. This is one reason why I am frustrated with all the people who keep asking for downloadable models and who criticise OpenAI for not doing that. If it's a private model, you've at least got some control over the system, some ability to see who is doing what and perhaps making your own automation to stop it or to prosecute the wrongdoers.
If the weights are downloadable, you're giving this ability away and pretending you're not responsible for the result.
If OpenAI and Facebook both get sued out of existence due to their models allowing this, the OpenAI models go offline, the Facebook models remain circulating forever.
> - people are actively getting dumber as they trust the hallucinated outputs blindly
Roll to disbelieve. People have been saying this about every new tech at least since Socrates was moping about the invention of writing.
> - regular communication is starting to break down because you can't trust that people aren't just copy/pasting some AI bullshit in lieu of an actual discussion
Yup. Been accused of that myself, here.
I'm fairly sure it's improved the content of r/HFY though. I think I can recognise the stories which are AI generated from having played around with it (and been unsatisfied with the results), but I remember how much worse it was before.
> - I've already seen AI girlfriend products which doesn't strike much confidence in our ongoing future as a species considering the numbers I've seen on some of them
I think the bigger problem is two older AIs, specifically (1) whatever Match.com uses to pair people in their dating apps and how much worse this seems to be than the original (pre-Match.com) OkCupid, and (2) everything Facebook does.
Both make real human connection much harder than endless swiping, it's just that the former is swiping sideways and the latter swiping vertically, but both make para-social relationships out of people we should be genuinely connected to.
> "Oh but UBI!", an AI sycophant will shout, as if saying the magic incantation changes the reality of the real world somehow.
I… think we need that, in step with AI making people unemployable, even if only to avoid a riot, but I'd agree UBI isn't going to fix any of the other problems you're worried about.