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  Ajeya Cotra – "This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get" It is difficult to know what is true and what is deliberate marketing / misinformation / fraud intended to make LLMs seem more capable than they are. But if there is any truth to what is presented in this video, controlling LLMs to limit the means they might use to achieve an objective is not reliable, which is a significant risk. Either way, I found the discussion in this video interesting. But I wonder what ot...

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  The elite don't need the masses to be informed, they need them to be placated and oblivious or confused about what is happening, so they support what is contrary to their interests - idolize and support the elite. Good newsrooms don't serve the purposes of those that own them. AI producing slop with embedded propaganda serves them. It has only just begun. Watch young people on TikTok, sopping up the numbing propaganda. It is the future - now controlled by US elites. Like programmers who...

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  And yet, if you don't, you will be undercut by the [grossly subsidized AI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing) and out of a job, either individually if your management leans AI or the whole enterprise if they don't, replaced by the AI slop factories.

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  My wife is an accountant. She went to a seminar today where they were told to start using AI or get out of the way. They were shown an AI that can produce consolidated annual accounts and financial statements in a few minutes, that it takes her and the auditors a month to produce. And they look very good! The company is unlikely to pay her and wait for the quality reports she has been producing for years. She's on notice: start prompting the AI or move on. The AI promoters are going to run h...

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  Best if you don't if quality is more important than financial viability, but no one can compete financially with the flood of AI/LLM being given away for free or, at most, far below actual cost. It's not good for anyone but the billionaires, but have you noticed how much wealth they have accumulated in the past few years? It's very, very good for them.

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  You're absolutely correct. But the problem is bigger than the rogue journalist. [Separation of duties](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_duties) is a well known requirement for robust, reliable processes immune to single points of failure (whether malicious or, as I suspect in this case, merely grossly negligent and irresponsible). It is necessary but not sufficient to hold just the journalist who used AI responsible for the publication of false statements.

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  AI - damned if you do and damned if you don't. And it's not just journalism affected.

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  Sounds great! If you prefer hallucinations to journalism, facts or evidence.