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It's not going to be long before this seriously injures or kills someone.
Yeah. My mother is getting phishing emails and genuinely believes that Nancy Pelosi is sending her emails asking for monetary support. We’re not even American. Like, not even the same continent.
Not everyone is as critical as they ought to be when reading stuff on the internet. It doesn’t help that LLMs have a tendency to state things confidently or matter-of-factly.
People not familiar with the tech will read it and take it at face value, ignoring the “this is AI generated and might be wrong” because that sounds too technological to some people that their brain doesn’t even process it.
I can't imagine all the shit it's picked up from 4chan's /b/.
Man, who'd have guessed that the thing that would potentially slow eventual AI dominance are companies rushing to use it? All the horror and scifi stories implied rushing would be what CAUSES it