I think the big problem is that for every small convenience like this AI presents a heap of downsides. Cool, you parsed fine print faster. But we just surpassed 50% of content on the internet being AI generated, making the internet less useful. An AI generated recipe led me to undercook chicken, but hey, at least I didn’t have to use a c…
I think the big problem is that for every small convenience like this AI presents a heap of downsides. Cool, you parsed fine print faster. But we just surpassed 50% of content on the internet being AI generated, making the internet less useful. An AI generated recipe led me to undercook chicken, but hey, at least I didn’t have to use a cookbook. It offers minor conveniences in exchange for massive ethical problems, like undetectable fake videos, people forming unhealthy relationships with chatbots, the ability to generate spam messages in seconds, intelligence operations are able to weaponize it to control the discourse online. The invention of glasses didn’t come with these kinds of downsides. None of this seems worth the very limited benefits of text and image generation, which typically take so much tweaking I might as well have done it myself.
I think there are certainly some applications like medical research where it has its benefits but the public rollout as a free tool seems to be leading to a lot of risk with little reward.
I think the big problem is that for every small convenience like this AI presents a heap of downsides. Cool, you parsed fine print faster. But we just surpassed 50% of content on the internet being AI generated, making the internet less useful. An AI generated recipe led me to undercook chicken, but hey, at least I didn’t have to use a cookbook. It offers minor conveniences in exchange for massive ethical problems, like undetectable fake videos, people forming unhealthy relationships with chatbots, the ability to generate spam messages in seconds, intelligence operations are able to weaponize it to control the discourse online. The invention of glasses didn’t come with these kinds of downsides. None of this seems worth the very limited benefits of text and image generation, which typically take so much tweaking I might as well have done it myself.
I think there are certainly some applications like medical research where it has its benefits but the public rollout as a free tool seems to be leading to a lot of risk with little reward.