I understand that this was posted to be light hearted and funny. I just can't see the humor in AI. I vacillate between anger, depression and outright terror that the apocalypse is nigh.
I wish that people would snap out of whatever spell they're under cast by the shiniest new objects, understand that this stuff is an existential threat and simply choose not to engage with it - but people are people, and so we're more than likely hurtling toward extinction.
Open AI, which owns ChatGPT, also owns DALL-E (one of the main offenders in the war against visual artists). ChatGPT is trained in the same manner (by scraping massive amounts of private data), which alone is reason not to use it - but again, people are people - and so we are all essentially fucked.
The tech is being used for cheating purposes, scamming purposes, propaganda (which will almost certainly become a much used tool in the destabilization of governments going forward), cyberattacks, deepfake technology, revenge porn, as a means of improving and perfecting facial recognition software (which is then used to control civilian populations in authoritarian countries), etc. etc. etc. And both China and the U.S. are now using it to develop more efficient means of killing their enemies, as you can read in this article published just today.
It's flying fighter jets now. Wheeeee!!!!
The race to develop the next generation of AI isn’t just between tech companies like Microsoft and Google — it’s also between nations, which are working furiously to foster and develop their own technology.
www.nbcnews.com
