Last year, Noah Smith wrote:

“The combination of anonymity and virality have driven the cost of Big Lies to zero, and we’re just starting to discover what that means for human society.

“And we may just be getting started — GPTs and other LLMs have amazing conversational ability and zero understanding of the difference between truth and fiction.

“In the wrong hands — or even in the right hands! — AI thus has the potential to be a God of Lies, spamming our already hopelessly contaminated information ecosystem with plausible-sounding falsehoods.”

Whether the tools are compared to hammers, guns, or nuclear weapons, the challenge is with humans, ambition, and errors in judgement.

I think the rise of botshit will make “proof of humanity” more of a thing.

Once we drive through “uncanny valley” one too many times, we end up re-sensitizing ourselves to inauthenticity.

Noah Smith:

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