[HN Gopher] Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful peop...
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Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. Be
afraid
Author : edward
Score : 37 points
Date : 2024-08-03 14:22 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
| metabagel wrote:
| LLMs have benefits, but it's a real negative that you can no
| longer be sure if you are communicating with a human on the
| internet or reading something which was written by a human.
|
| It seems like public keys and web of trust are the future in
| terms of knowing that there is a human on the other end of the
| internet.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_signing_party
|
| But, I don't know what happens when a cloud of LLMs get their own
| public keys signed by some humans.
| metabagel wrote:
| In many cases, you can still tell when an article was written
| by an LLM, but I think that window is closing fast.
| jkaplowitz wrote:
| In some senses it already has, though not always how you
| meant: I was once accused of using ChatGPT to write a Reddit
| comment that I genuinely wrote myself without AI assistance.
|
| (I think the person disliked the substance of what I was
| arguing, the length of my comment, or both.)
| suprjami wrote:
| Gosh is that the next level?
|
| 2015: Search for something you've forgotten and find your
| own old post/comment explaining how to do it.
|
| 2025: Ask an LLM for something you've forgotten and have
| your own old post/comment read back to you.
| nuc1e0n wrote:
| Even if you are reading something written by a human on the
| internet that's still no guarantee of trustworthiness.
| SkyPuncher wrote:
| What would public keys solve? We already have these with
| domains and SSL certificates. Many messaging apps also support
| keys.
| layer8 wrote:
| You missed "and web of trust".
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust
| linotype wrote:
| LLMs are already a commodity product. They're going to be a
| feature of cloud providers not a standalone business.
| chuckadams wrote:
| OpenAI has first-mover advantage, but hardly a monopoly on the
| technology or the people behind AI. In fact, I think we've
| already hit peak Altman, and his star will be diminishing from
| here on.
| thelastparadise wrote:
| Their first-mover advantage has completely evaporated at this
| point.
| bamboozled wrote:
| A lot of people seem to use Gemini where I work so I don't
| think you're right.
| DaSHacka wrote:
| Gemini is run by Google though, knowing a lot of people that
| use it only stands to serve GP's point that OpenAI is slowly
| losing their grasp on the AI market.
| intellectronica wrote:
| When a newspaper commands you to "be afraid", you know they're
| full of bullshit. Real reporting presents you with facts and
| analysis and lets you decide how to feel about it.
| adonovan wrote:
| It's an op-ed piece. The job of an opinion writer is not merely
| to inform you but to change your beliefs.
| suprjami wrote:
| Op-ed are usually filler nonsense written by journalists to
| generate ad revenue on a slow news day. That was true in
| newspaper and is true online too.
|
| They are the most skippable "news" articles of all.
| bbstats wrote:
| Oh cool, did he make Sonnet 3.5?
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