I'm not as concerned simply due to the nature of this sort of AI.

It's like when people train a dog to drive a car or teach a chimp sign language. None of the knowledge or ability of these AIs is actually independent from human thinking, it's all downstream from ideas humans had.

The real threat is deep fakes and the post truth era. The gpt stuff is just a silly distraction from the fact you can now make a nearly convincing recording of the president saying whatever you want and nearly convincingly lipsynch that recording over a video of him speaking. That sort of AI is only going to get more powerful and deceptive, and what's worse is by design such fakes cannot be detected without a significantly more powerful AI. Such an AI can easily be used to create an AI which can trick the detection AI though, so really this shits just going to get harder and harder to detect.

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True, generative adversarial networks are the real demonspawn. "...For he is a liar, and the father of it"

Just getting people to realize that this is even possible today, right now, is a challenge--let alone getting them to realize that it's already happening. Every digital appearance of every person of any significance, especially politicians, has to be called into question now.

It won't be long before we have politicians in charge who don't even exist but are just ChatGPT-generated, voice-synthesized, face-rendered, animated fakes. Maybe that's the case somewhere already.