Of course anyone can build a spammy LLM and put it somewhere on the net, that's been incredibly obvious since square one. Just like anyone can get enough fertiliser together and...
Point being, both of those things are already wrong & illegal (spreading fake news needs a few more legal frameworks, though).
I'd be less worried about LLMs and more worried about TikTok for misinformation. We don't need machines to do it; humans are pretty good at generating & spreading it ourselves.
Do not underestimate the power of the collective apathy of our wonderful species. People don't care that news/info might be fake in the same way that they don't care a funny ha ha TT video is scripted but presented as actually having happened. The Internet is rife with this culture now.
Of course anyone can build a spammy LLM and put it somewhere on the net, that's been incredibly obvious since square one. Just like anyone can get enough fertiliser together and...
Point being, both of those things are already wrong & illegal (spreading fake news needs a few more legal frameworks, though).
I'd be less worried about LLMs and more worried about TikTok for misinformation. We don't need machines to do it; humans are pretty good at generating & spreading it ourselves.
Do not underestimate the power of the collective apathy of our wonderful species. People don't care that news/info might be fake in the same way that they don't care a funny ha ha TT video is scripted but presented as actually having happened. The Internet is rife with this culture now.