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Re:OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, w... by fakedang on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @08:39AM (#40975972)
As long as there's a financial interest for a small minority, there will be a scenario where a doomsday AI will be ignored until it's too late.

A dangerous AI won't be killer robots going about patrolling the streets. But they could block job prospects, put people on watchlists, block financial transactions for them, etc. I'd say that tech is already here.

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Re:OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, w... by moffkalast on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @08:49AM (#40976026)
Tbh all of that sounds like it would be completely impossible without either breaking all known encryption without anyone noticing, plus burning all possible backups (basically the Mr. Robot Season 1 plot) or with unilateral government backing. The first one is nigh impossible, the second one is completely up to us, as it's always been. It doesn't require an AGI for fascists to come into power and start shooting people they don't like with impunity.
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Re:OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, w... by fakedang on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @08:55AM (#40976072)
> It doesn't require an AGI for fascists to come into power and start shooting people they don't like with impunity.

But AI makes it easier for fascists to rise up and maintain their power through propaganda. For example, there are known cases of American operatives based in Russia spreading fake GPT generated stories about Ukraine, the Dems, etc. While before, they would have had to rely on a team in India to write poorly written articles, now they have GPT tools to write convincing ones *at scale*.

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Re:OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, w... by walterbell on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @09:56AM (#40976661)
What's a good example of a convincing article written by a GPT tool?
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Re:OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, w... by klibertp on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @10:23AM (#40976917)
What's your definition of "convincing"? From what I understand about propaganda, you don't need any single article to be "convincing"; you just need to hammer your point long enough and frequently enough. Not to mention, if you just want to drown your opponent's points, it's enough for your messaging to be barely legible.
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Re:OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, w... by walterbell on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @10:31AM (#40976985)
"Convincing" and "censorship-by-spamming" are different.

Humans can already recognize GPT text slop as non-human, ignoring it before it can make any point or do any convincing.

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Re:OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, w... by fakedang on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @06:25PM (#40980890)
https://cybernews.com/news/ai-bots-chatgpt-spread-russia-pro...

The article talks about how they're being used this election cycle.

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