“I can’t prove that," says Oren Etzioni, professor emeritus at the University of Washington. "I hope to be proven wrong. But the ingredients are there."

Top AI expert ‘completely terrified’ of 2024 election, shaping up to be ‘tsunami of misinformation’::“I can’t prove that," says Oren Etzioni, professor emeritus at the University of Washington. “I hope to be proven wrong. But the ingredients are there.”

  • ugjka@lemmy.worldEnglish
    163·
    10 months ago

    It is just maths and most of it is public. if you can buy a 100K$ datacenter gpu you can have your own chat gpt, heck you can even do shit with regular consumer gpus. It is like trying to stop encryption

    • FarFarAway@startrek.websiteEnglish
      37·
      10 months ago

      Well, shit. This explains a lot. But also, what chucklehead thought that was a good idea.

      I know, now that you mention it, I vaguely remember something about how they didn’t think it should be kept only by some corps or something. Which is commendable but at the same time, ugh.

      I have no problem with everyone being able to use it ,but there should have been an introductory period, if nothing else. Jeeze.

      Whelp, fake everything here we…are.

      • deranger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        10 months ago

        Feels like people probably said the same thing about the printing press when it came around. Imagine the sheer increase in volume of printed lies after its invention.

      • ugjka@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Social media corps just need to use AI to cross check what is in Video/Photos against various established news organizations. Pretty sure that will be the solution - moderating AI content with AI