OpenAI has first-mover advantage, but hardly a monopoly on the technology or the people behind AI. In fact, I think we’ve already hit peak Altman, and his star will be diminishing from here on.
Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. Be afraid
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#13When a newspaper commands you to "be afraid", you know they're full of bullshit. Real reporting presents you with facts and analysis and lets you decide how to feel about it.
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#14OpenAI has first-mover advantage, but hardly a monopoly on the technology or the people behind AI. In fact, I think we’ve already hit peak Altman, and his star will be diminishing from here on.
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#15OpenAI has first-mover advantage, but hardly a monopoly on the technology or the people behind AI. In fact, I think we’ve already hit peak Altman, and his star will be diminishing from here on.
A lot of people seem to use Gemini where I work so I don’t think you’re right.
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#16LLMs have benefits, but it's a real negative that you can no longer be sure if you are communicating with a human on the internet or reading something which was written by a human. It seems like public keys and web of trust are the future in terms of knowing that there is a human on the other end of the internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_signing_party But, I don't know what happens when a cloud of LLMs get t…
What would public keys solve? We already have these with domains and SSL certificates. Many messaging apps also support keys.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
In many cases, you can still tell when an article was written by an LLM, but I think that window is closing fast.
In some senses it already has, though not always how you meant: I was once accused of using ChatGPT to write a Reddit comment that I genuinely wrote myself without AI assistance. (I think the person disliked the substance of what I was arguing, the length of my comment, or both.)
2015: Search for something you've forgotten and find your own old post/comment explaining how to do it.
2025: Ask an LLM for something you've forgotten and have your own old post/comment read back to you.
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#18When a newspaper commands you to "be afraid", you know they're full of bullshit. Real reporting presents you with facts and analysis and lets you decide how to feel about it.
It’s an op-ed piece. The job of an opinion writer is not merely to inform you but to change your beliefs.
They are the most skippable "news" articles of all.
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#20LLMs have benefits, but it's a real negative that you can no longer be sure if you are communicating with a human on the internet or reading something which was written by a human. It seems like public keys and web of trust are the future in terms of knowing that there is a human on the other end of the internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_signing_party But, I don't know what happens when a cloud of LLMs get t…
In many cases, you can still tell when an article was written by an LLM, but I think that window is closing fast.