Michael EkstrandOne of the interesting and disturbing aspects of modern LLMs isn’t what new they do, but what they make cheap. Low-quality, duplicative content makes retrieving quality information incredibly hard, especially in commercially lucrative domains such as product reviews. Making it 3+ orders of magnitude less expensive to produce that content will not help our informarion ecosystem, even if AI content is identical in quality and substance to what humans are already producing.
Andrew Davies@mdekstrand This is a great summary of a big part of the risk with them. They also help us lie to ourselves - or more accurately other people lie to us who can use them at scale for developing propaganda and advertisements.