Astral Codex Ten Podcast

Mostly Skeptical Thoughts On The Chatbot Propaganda Apocalypse


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People worry about chatbot propaganda.

The simplest concern is that you could make chatbots write disinformation at scale. This has created a cottage industry of AI Trust And Safety people making sure their chatbot will never write arguments against COVID vaccines under any circumstances, and a secondary industry of journalists writing stories about how they overcame these safeguards and made the chatbots write arguments against COVID vaccines.

But Alex Berenson already writes arguments against COVID vaccines. He's very good at it, much better than I expect chatbots to be for many years. Most people either haven't read them, or have incidentally come across one or two things from his years-long corpus. The limiting factor on your exposure to arguments against COVID vaccines isn't the existence of arguments against COVID vaccines. It's the degree to which the combination of the media's coverage decisions and your viewing habits causes you to see those arguments. A million mechanical Berensons churning out a million times the output wouldn't affect that; even one Berenson already churns out more than most people ever read.

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