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Re: As an AI Language Model

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For now, this is just funny, I laughed. But with the advent of all these new open-source LLMs, it will get worse. If you thought people were gullible for falling for fake comments from bots, just wait for the near future. Post-factual/Post-Truth era truly begins. The internet that used to be a source of information is no more, only islands of truth will remain (like, hopefully, Wikipedia, but even that is questionabl…

I am more optimistic here. While LLMs allow you to produce tons of garbage, they also provide the tools to filter through that garbage, something we didn't have before. LLMs allow us to view content in a way that we decided, not the content creator. That's extremely powerful and lets us sidesteps a lot of the old methods used to manipulate us. The risk is more in the LLMs themselves, as whoever gets to control them g…

> overtime the LLMs will get better and I'll get more lazy, thus making the LLMs the primary lens through which one views the world

There's going to be a progressive de-skilling and dumbing down of humans, as AI's and robots do and think more and more for them.

Re: As an AI Language Model

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am more optimistic here. While LLMs allow you to produce tons of garbage, they also provide the tools to filter through that garbage, something we didn't have before. LLMs allow us to view content in a way that we decided, not the content creator. That's extremely powerful and lets us sidesteps a lot of the old methods used to manipulate us. The risk is more in the LLMs themselves, as whoever gets to control them g…

> overtime the LLMs will get better and I'll get more lazy, thus making the LLMs the primary lens through which one views the world There's going to be a progressive de-skilling and dumbing down of humans, as AI's and robots do and think more and more for them.

It’s already happening at scale, people are already deciding there’s no point to continue education unless required.

Re: As an AI Language Model

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For now, this is just funny, I laughed. But with the advent of all these new open-source LLMs, it will get worse. If you thought people were gullible for falling for fake comments from bots, just wait for the near future. Post-factual/Post-Truth era truly begins. The internet that used to be a source of information is no more, only islands of truth will remain (like, hopefully, Wikipedia, but even that is questionabl…

There will be self verifiable truths like provable theorems in axiomatic mathematics. There will be enforceable contracts like Elon musk’s purchase of twitter. There will be quarterly investor reports and earnings calls from public companies that avoid lying at risk of shareholder and sec lawsuits. There will be documents time stamped with hashes and bitcoin. the bots will need karma points as well.

Re: As an AI Language Model

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And now we truly know why GPT insists to say "as an AI model" when we break a rule. It's precisely this. Like a signature, so we find it out in the wild when it's abused.

I try really hard to prompt it to replace it with something else. It acknowledges and agree to it. Did it maybe once or twice, then reverted back to the old “As a AI model” IIRC, I was trying to see if it could replace by “as a LLM”.

I realise you want to do it using the prompt but wouldn't it be easier to `output.replace("As an AI language model, ", "As a totes sentient robot, ")`?

Re: As an AI Language Model

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post #26

For now, this is just funny, I laughed. But with the advent of all these new open-source LLMs, it will get worse. If you thought people were gullible for falling for fake comments from bots, just wait for the near future. Post-factual/Post-Truth era truly begins. The internet that used to be a source of information is no more, only islands of truth will remain (like, hopefully, Wikipedia, but even that is questionabl…

I am more optimistic here. While LLMs allow you to produce tons of garbage, they also provide the tools to filter through that garbage, something we didn't have before. LLMs allow us to view content in a way that we decided, not the content creator. That's extremely powerful and lets us sidesteps a lot of the old methods used to manipulate us. The risk is more in the LLMs themselves, as whoever gets to control them g…

> The risk is more in the LLMs themselves, as whoever gets to control them gets to decide how people are going to experience the world. For the time being I might still double check all the answers I get from ChatGPT, but overtime the LLMs will get better and I'll get more lazy, thus making the LLMs the primary lens through which one views the world.

You've underlined the major risk these LLMs are for humanity. For a brief time in the history of human race, after information was democratized, most of us (at least educated people) had to use our own critical faculties to understand the world we live in. Now, that capacity will be outsourced to custom LLMs, most of them derived from other pre-trained with some ideological biases built-in. The informational Dark Ages of the technological era.

If they provide the tools to filter through the garbage, it'll probably be standardized in some way as an interface to the web. So just as HTML and its satellite technologies limit and standardize the representational aspect of information on the web, I think this AI-interface will severely limit the knowledge/wisdom aspect you can derive from information on the web. It's a hard thing to put my finger on, I hope you can understand what I'm saying.

Re: As an AI Language Model

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post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> overtime the LLMs will get better and I'll get more lazy, thus making the LLMs the primary lens through which one views the world There's going to be a progressive de-skilling and dumbing down of humans, as AI's and robots do and think more and more for them.

It’s already happening at scale, people are already deciding there’s no point to continue education unless required.

Aren't people going further in education now than ever before?
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