My colleague and coauthor Jevin West has been warning me for years about the mess that we would face as #GPT and other text-based generative AI matured.
I was not sufficiently concerned.
I just realized why.
I thought of them as tools for deception, and while they offered some advantages for creating disinformation at scale, human beings are quite adapt at creating bullshit on their own.
What I missed was that people would WANT to consult them, knowingly, despite all their issues.
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@ct_bergstrom I find them to be quite useful in certain domains, like code generation. The scary part is the rush to integrate them into consumer products (like search) where users are forced to use them and may not even be aware that they are using them.
