• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
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    6 days ago

    All who argue in the interwebs are potential victims honestly. And those who argue with them, even if only IRL. How do you tell which news, which discourses and which commenters are bots (or repeat after bots, or consult bots)?

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      2 days ago

      In addition to this, I was just thinking about how many kids are asking questions to LLM’s that just a few years ago they would have asked friends or their parents or a mentor. A whole generation that will be used to taking advice from a black-box LLM.

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        2 days ago

        Ye-es, we’ll see a good test of humanity’s ability to adapt. Either it delivers, or it ends right in the following decades, because its survival is based on a much subtler process than people controlling these technologies can conceive. It’s all the time of evolution and its volume of entropy spent on optimization versus like 40 years of computer programmers deciding they know how it all should be done, just have to pass through the resistance. The latter is a drop in the sea. It can’t realistically be anything but a threat.