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> The danger of "AI" is that we actually believe the plausible fabrications it produces are "intelligent".

the thing I find scary is you see people on here believing this

if a website full of techies can't tell the difference what chance do the general public have?

I suspect the invention of the LLM will be the final nail in the coffin of liberal democracy (after the invention of social media)



People should never have blindly trusted anything on the internet in the first place. As far as I’m aware, most of the fears like this are overrated. People will live, learn and adapt as we always have. Constantly complaining about doom and having pessimism about anything seemingly scary is not a great way to live a fulfilling life.




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