It’s wild to me that OpenAI rolled over in its sleep and started a wave that will completely obliterate the moat of any company whose product is based on content production at scale. And there are more content businesses out there than one might realize. It feels like working in brick and mortar retail during the early days of the internet; that inescapable feeling of “man, I’m fucked but I don’t know how just yet.”

And unlike previous disrupting agents (computers, robots, whatever), the ones who feel the brunt of this shift will be white collar workers, not blue collar.

To your point, all of this will hit like a ton of bricks years or even decades before Skynet goes live and the machine armies come for blood.

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Not to mention the information security issues we are about to see. We are going to see catastrophic data breaches all over the world. Things like AutoGPT will become common black hat tools, that will be unleashed into corporate networks once they've penetrated in. Obviously, AI will be used as part of the defenses and countermeasures. But those tools seems to be lagging very far behind.

Oof, true. Side thought: add “social engineering scammer in a call center in Bangladesh” to the list of jobs disrupted by LLMs