Raw LLM Responses

AI has already caused immense damage. Algorithmic media recommendation systems designed to maximise profitable behaviour in users is a very current example of misaligned ai at scale. LLMs are already used to poison political discourse in the public sphere where the appearance of a groundswell of opinion supporting whatever you like costs pennies to produce. There’s a total epistemic crisis in the world of media and politics as it becomes increasingly impossible to trust the images we see. Cargo cult communities have sprung up around particularly charismatic ai models. These are real harms. There will be more. I didn’t even get into government surveillance and weapons of war, or the precarious labour market and potential for the social contract to collapse.