Dan GillmorMar 18, 2023

I've been viscerally opposed to regulating technology except the the most rare of circumstances.

That was before our new masters of the universe turned us into the subjects of black-box science experiments at accelerating speeds -- and fired the people who think about the ethics of it all.

This is unacceptable, and if the public doesn't wake up, a few mega-wealthy and powerful people could ruin everything for everyone but (temporarily) themselves.

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@dangillmor I'm curious if you see a way to even attempt to put this genie back in its bottle.

I worry that, no matter what regulation we may attempt to use, bad actors have this technology now and will use it, ever more frequently and invisibly, to dictate the course of discourse.

More productive inquiries may be how to mitigate the ongoing presence of GPT-fueled disinformation, perhaps by introducing a network of trusted sources?

Mar 18, 2023 at 4:15amWeb