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Re:LaMDA is not sentient by robbomacrae on Monday June 13, 2022 @04:56PM (#31731660)
I share your concerns. Imagine what effect a sympathetic AI would have on 4chan incels. We've already seen Twitter bots manipulated to repeat alt-right rhetoric [0]. An adversary could find building such bots a cheap and a very hard to trace way of causing damage.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)

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Re:LaMDA is not sentient by ericbarrett on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @12:01AM (#31734589)
I'd bet a significant sum it's happening already. Forget GPT-3; many comments on forums, discord, telegram, and what not are already less coherent than what one could train for on a retail GPU in a few hours, and people don't bat an eye. Such bots would be a great way of generating traffic and buzz before an organic following is established.
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