100%
I actually just wrote my thoughts before I saw this comment.
I challenge anyone to go back to the articles shared here on Lemmy when AI was taken off. Compare the headlines to headlines from right wing media towards immigration. It’s uncanny how similar they are, at least to me.
They often deal with some appeal to pathos like
They will take our jobs They threaten our culture They will sexually assault children They will contribute to the rise in crime
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
A potential strategy for using it for good would be dealing with the problem of comparitive effor to spread and debunk bullshit. It takes very little effort to spread bullshit. It takes a lot of effort to debunk it.
An LLM doesn’t need to worry about effort. It can happily chug away debunking bullshit all day long, ignoring the problem of them not being able to reason, and the other ongoing problems with LLMs. But there is potential for it being a part of the solution here.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Ooh that’s clever, I’m going to start doing that.