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0 pointsceejayoz4y ago0 comments

That’s a bit like saying machine guns aren’t an improvement over bows and arrows because they both throw projectiles, isn’t it?

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egeozcan4y ago

I'm not talking about improvements.

You need gun control with bows and arrows, and you still need gun control with machine guns.

That's what I'm saying.

ceejayozOP4y ago

And what we're saying is stuff like GPT-3 may be improvements on the level of archery --> machine gunning when it comes to online trolling, misinformation, and the like.

Casually dismissing it with "well it's just extra moderation load" is a mistake, I think.

egeozcan4y ago

First of all: You were down voted, but I up voted your comment because I respect it.

I still humbly think that it'd still be a cat and mouse game on every side imaginable.

You may argue that this leaves individuals vulnerable (people not being able to discern actual people from chat bots, which was the given example), but in the end, people learn to adapt. They get their own AI assistant to do the job or they keep doing what they did before: Just don't trust anonymous people online. They can be murderers, molesters, terrorists or worse, bots :)

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egeozcan4y ago

I'm not talking about improvements.

You need gun control with bows and arrows, and you still need gun control with machine guns.

That's what I'm saying.

ceejayozOP4y ago

And what we're saying is stuff like GPT-3 may be improvements on the level of archery --> machine gunning when it comes to online trolling, misinformation, and the like.

Casually dismissing it with "well it's just extra moderation load" is a mistake, I think.

egeozcan4y ago

First of all: You were down voted, but I up voted your comment because I respect it.

I still humbly think that it'd still be a cat and mouse game on every side imaginable.

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