Which isn't to say that there is no substance worth exploring in George's post there, but it should be treated as a cry for help and not an assessment of the situation. (Though the cry for help - in classic intellectualizing fashion - is wrapped in a lot of real genuine thoughts)
It will just be necessary to separate the emotions from the reality to enable one to react properly and decisively against a threat that primarily attacks emotions, stories, etc.
LLMs are story engines. Stories are the exploit vector. Language is stories.
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There are very real things wrapped in stories, but one can only truly tackle them by unwrapping first.
You do however have control over your personal future, your friend- and relationships, your neighbors and your local social circles.
Unless you're in the bay area I guess, in which case I am part sorry part full of schadenfreude. I am not confident that healthy local social relationships are possible there.
> AI that can play a whole society in hours can manufacture entire histories, years of archives of daily newspapers, and an Internet that never happened. The dead Internet theory is coming true before our eyes. Now I can still see the bots, soon I won’t be able to.
> A media landscape that is botted and microtargeted to all hell, nonsensical elections where the only thing people agree on is the names of candidates. Massive dumps of corporate slacks and intranets. (come on Russian kids, grab an abliterated AI and do a hacking!)
> The Internet era is over. Your life will never be the same. The chaos will come for the resistance as well as the fascists; it’s unclear who it will hurt more.
I'm starting to arrive at the same conclusion. It's very, very difficult to see the transition from intelligence to madness. You really do need to be connected (and close!) to people outside of tech, especially in the humanities, to fully grasp the insanity of this industry's development and evolution. The tech industry is, broadly, starting to be reviled in developed countries. I'm regularly having to qualify that I don't work in big tech when I share what I do.
When I connect with people who largely only have connections in tech, I'm finding I relate less and less with their thinking. I think "AI psychosis" is a very apt term.
It's literally just tensor multiplications at the end of the day, generating likely outcomes in useful ways.
these stories shift and change over time and have a massive impact on the people living and using the stories (religion, science, technology, economy, etc), both for good and for bad.
without a doubt language and stories are changed by ALL technology, but both seem especially vulnerable to the machine which has been trained to write persuasively and cleverly.