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Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. Be afraid

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Re: Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. Be afraid

#11

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.

Their first-mover advantage has completely evaporated at this point.

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#13

When 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.

Re: Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. Be afraid

#14

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.

A lot of people seem to use Gemini where I work so I don’t think you’re right.

Re: Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. Be afraid

#15

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.

A lot of people seem to use Gemini where I work so I don’t think you’re right.

Gemini is run by Google though, knowing a lot of people that use it only stands to serve GP's point that OpenAI is slowly losing their grasp on the AI market.

Re: Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. Be afraid

#16

LLMs 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.

You missed “and web of trust”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust

Re: Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. Be afraid

#17

Earlier 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.)

Gosh is that the next level?

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.

Re: Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. Be afraid

#18

When 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.

Op-ed are usually filler nonsense written by journalists to generate ad revenue on a slow news day. That was true in newspaper and is true online too.

They are the most skippable "news" articles of all.

Re: Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. Be afraid

#20

LLMs 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.

But what about “assisted by” AI? Plenty of people use LLMs to enhance their writing abilities, like, say, ‘90s era grammar & spell check. Plenty of AI users are sophisticated enough to understand that dumping pure AI-Gen content is a bad idea. And what’s wrong with AI-enhanced speach?
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