Comment on OpenAI employees really, really did not want to go work for Microsoft
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 9 months ago
At this stage, I’d say it’s 50/50 whether OpenAI is a net positive for the world. I’m not talking about the chatbot coming to life and enslaving humanity. Just making it easy to flood the internet with SPAM, fake images, etc. is going to be awful for the internet and, possibly, humanity for a bit.
I also wouldn’t be shocked if the technology does have tremendous benefits (like DeepMind with protein folding) that outweigh the downsides. But let’s see what the sewer rats of capitalism and Machiavellian political actors do with it before anyone pops the champagne about “changing the world.”
Just making it easy to flood the internet with SPAM, fake images, etc. is going to be awful for the internet and, possibly, humanity for a bit.
I don’t see how the center will hold, when we won’t be able to even really talk to each other any more, because we will think that everything we read is fake and produced by bots from corporate/political entities trying to manipulate us, instead of having intellectually honest conversations by individuals to resolve issues.
Imagine if they’d kept it a secret, and none of us knew there was this thing out there that could do these things.
Annually2747@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yep. I am absolutely fascinated by it. Totally agree with you, you couldn’t be more right. I’m a heavy AI user and I love seeing those 2 minute papers about what clever people are doing with it, like creating a swarm of AIs to create a game using giving AIs roles and responsibilities and reporting hierarchy, code review, and more. On the other side I literally made copyright infringing material by accident.
While public ones might get some safe guards to help prevent people from doing bad things easily and intentionally, there’s plenty of unrestricted ones coming in, scraping the internet, training and offering a moral free AI. The arms wars have begun on all kinds of fronts. I can’t predict where we will be in 5 years from now.
Id be betting pessimistically though