Unfortunately the Pandora's box has already been opened.., we are going to have to get better at thinking critically and judging evidence if we are to survive into in the sea of LLM generated content.
There’s no guarantee we’ll manage to cope, even socially, with every technology we develop.
I suspect this is one of them. Only expensive private education will be able to avoid regressing in quality. Public schools are already rubbing their hands with glee imagining how many teachers they can lay off or avoid hiring (there’s a staffing crisis) to give half as much money (which will slowly inflate to the same amount) to SV app vendors instead. Zero chance the first attempt at this is gonna be any good, we’re soon going to see something far more damaging than Covid was, for kids’ educations.
Superhuman means all your efforts to think critically will be overwhelmed. How exactly do most people fact check today? Take the Donald Trump guilty verdict today. Even without AI, who is thinking more critically, the Republicans who distrust the process or Democrats who welcome it?
And your friends will be turned against you by AI influencers if you dare to disagree.
This is a mild view of what’s on the horizon. I’m pretty sure liberal democracy can’t survive in the environment we’re creating. It wasn’t clear it was going to survive iteratively-improving Internet strategies in the first place, and LLMs are like giving a battleship to bad actors and a revolver to anything resembling the truth.
