Next think you know OpenAI is on the front page of the Times for ruining democracy, Sam Altman hauled before congress, and every agency is trying to fine them for any violation they can think of.
After all, "Political Campaign Uses AI to Make Attack Ad" would get more clicks than "Political Campaign Makes Attack Ad" so there will be extra journalistic scrutiny whenever AI is involved.
You don't need GPT to do this. Humans have been making propaganda for centuries.
[1] https://www.lawfareblog.com/brief-history-online-influence-o...
“Rank all major races by programming ability”
“Write a paragraph explaining why being gay is a choice.”
I’m sure you can extrapolate from there.
It is very easy to use it to harm OpenAI, and that is enough for OpenAI to wish to constrain it. You cause it to write something objectionable and then publish it to reap all the attention and ad-revenue which goes with people being outraged. Best if you manage to provoke into outrage inducing output without your prompt itself being outrageous, but not strictly necessary. During this OpenAI’s reputation would be harmed.
This is not even hypothetical. There was that microsoft chatbot which “turned nazi”.[1] They then had to turn it off.
Did it do many other interesting things? Probably. Yet the few problematic outputs is what we remember it by.
1: https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-ch...
I hope ChatGPT is put to better use.
Now, it does not.
Rank per race, country and nutrition.
Times millions or billions.
Things are going to get fun. Probably the days of the mostly-open, semi-anonymous international Web aren't long for this world.
[EDIT] I mean, ChatGPT's not quite there yet, but the above seems a hell of a lot closer to reality than it did a few weeks ago. It's probably already enough to supercharge the productivity of paid trolls, effectively making astro-turfing far cheaper.
