> And code, personalised lessons, essays, gardening advice, recipes, meme pictures, clip art, degree-level STEM, …
> Even legal advice...
You don't think that lessons can be misinformation? Legal advice? Meme pictures?
Even degree-level STEM, code, and gardening advice can be "misinformation" within their own fields.
Even within the domain of "how can this go horribly wrong?", even limited to assistance rather than full automation, and even while constrained to the truth, there's a lot of business value (and in at least some of those cases, a lot of potential harm) simply due to their capacity to automate tasks up to the level of a student or a graduate.
But for businesses? The only reason that the opportunity isn't already "net cost (pay + insurance + employer-paid taxes) of every junior desk job on the planet" is that they're competing with each other and the free models are kinda OK, so the price they can charge is already racing to no profit.
And code, personalised lessons, essays, gardening advice, recipes, meme pictures, clip art, degree-level STEM, …
Even legal advice, to the extent that lawyers have to be reminded to pay more attention to the results to make sure it's not made something up. It can and does give medical diagnosis, but I have yet to see a news story where a doctor had to be reminded of the same.
Now, I don't claim that any given actor in this space is "nice" or "moral". Even saying the right words don't make it so, as evidenced by e.g. Musk signing the Pause AI letter while building his data centres and developing his humanoid robots.
People say Altman gives them bad vibes? Well, they said that about Musk and I didn't see it until way too late, so now I believe them about Altman.
But the tech is way broader than just propaganda. It's also propaganda.