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Here's a take I havent heard yet. ChatGPT understands language and we've got troves of content archived/realtime that can't be reviewed manually. Now there's a tool that can understand text. Govs must be chomping at the bit to ask, "Hey ChatGPT, does any of this content seem illegal?" where illegal is a broad term, especially the authoritarian ones. Seems like an amazing surveillance tool to flag things for human review.

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I would assume some spy agencies already evaluate this. They get too much material to review manually and ChatGPT could really help identifying people they should look at closer.

If it can be used that way, I guess we can expect export restrictions on free usage and code/weights.

Affordable tools for ~this purpose have existed for years. Yes, LLMs make these tools more powerful, but they don't feel like game changers for this purpose.

Source: I've been in a position in which companies tried to sell me similar tools (to detect e.g. bullying).

They'll be able to understand the contents of pictures in addition to having a grasp of natural human language.

Definitely more powerful. But an iterative improvement for organizations (including governmental ones) that already use such tools.

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