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Re:Prepare for a wave of US politicians to use AI in their c... by matteoraso on Monday October 23, 2023 @05:02PM (#37991544)
It also scales in ways that no other information manipulation tool has ever scaled before. I'd say that AI is actually scary, even though I don't believe that it's truly intelligent.
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Re:Prepare for a wave of US politicians to use AI in their c... by hotnfresh on Monday October 23, 2023 @05:37PM (#37991923)
And right now, just about the only things LLMs in particular scale really well at doing is “grassroots” propaganda and misinformation. Well, that and commercial spam, especially the really scammy sort.

The stuff’s a 0.1-2x multiplier for most things one might apply it to, but it’s a 100x multiplier or more if you don’t care about reputation (it’s all sock puppet accounts anyway) or accuracy. IOW it’s currently most-beneficial for evil use cases, by a long shot.

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