"Focusing on doomsday scenarios in artificial intelligence is a distraction that plays down immediate risks such as the large-scale generation of misinformation, according to a senior industry figure attending this week’s AI safety summit."
Yeah - it is frustrating that there's so much focus on silly sci-fi threats when right now, LLMs are being used to fill the web with spam.
@tomw@mekkaokereke it’s not silly, it’s calculated. If you distract from the real issues with fake doomsday scenarios, they will leave you alone while you break things. Then you can fix the problems that you created and claim victory over the doomsday scenarios that you put forth in the first place. It’s regular misinformation tactics.
@aaron@tomw@mekkaokereke AI doomsday folks have been around for far longer than LLMs have been a tech industry fad (Roko’s basilisk is over a decade old!). That’s not to say they’re not seen as useful idiots by some, but there’s an annoying prevalence of true believers ime.
@aaron@mekkaokereke I see this claimed quite often but I'm not convinced - I don't think the "AI doomsday" people are some kind of astroturf effort to promote AI
Oh the "real" apocalypse is also happening. The informational grey goo is inundating the facilities we need to inform people that it is, in fact, happening and what needs to be done about it.
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