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> It is a point I often make that we don't need AGI for AI to already become very disturbing in its potential use. But we don't need AI or LLMs at all for the above scenario. Companies don't currently pry into your e-mails to make hiring decisions, but they could (ignoring laws) do it if they wanted. No LLM or AI necessary. So why would the existence of AIs or LLMs change that? If they wanted to use the content of yo…
Whenever we get to see behind the corporate veil, we often find companies don't abide by laws. How many companies failed this year hiding nefarious activities? Also, what types of behavior did we get a glimpse of from the Twitter Files? Aren't there always constant lawsuits about bad behavior of companies especially around privacy? So yes, we are talking about the same behavior existing, but the concern is that they…
Can you actually explain the types of bad behavior? The rhetorical question about The Twitter Files somehow being a groundbreaking expose of bad behavior doesn't really match anything I've seen. Most of what was cited was essentially a social media company trying to enforce their rules.
Might want to read up on the latest developments there. Several journalists have debunked a lot of the key claims in the "Twitter Files". Taibbi's part was particularly egregious, with some key numbers he used being completely wrong (e.g. claiming millions when the actual number was in the thousands, exaggerating how Twitter was using the data, etc.).
Even Taibbi and Elon have since had a falling out and Taibbi is leaving Twitter.
If Elon Musk so famously and publicly hates journalists for lying, spinning the truth, and pushing false narratives, why would he enlist journalists for "The Twitter Files"? The answer is in plain view: He wanted to take a nothingburger and use journalists to put a spin on it, then push a narrative.
Elon spent years saying that journalists can't be trusted because they're pushing narratives, so when Elon enlists a select set of journalists to push a narrative, why would you believe it's accurate?
> So yes, we are talking about the same behavior existing, but the concern is that they now get orders of magnitude more power to extend such bad behavior.
No they don't. The ultimate power is being able to read the e-mails directly. LLMs abstract that with a lower confidence model that is known to hallucinate answers when the underlying content doesn't have a satisfactory set of content.