To be fair, they were proven right about automated spam, phishing and disinformation being a problem.
Yes, some of it looks silly now, though it's always easy to criticize with hindsight: the models could do unexpectedly impressive things and we didn't fully know the limit yet, it was a black box.
Remember you're critcising the org that actually made it public to people earlier than any other: the uncertainty was a temporary caution. The "open" in OpenAI was because they made it available, unlike Google at the time.
> To be fair, they were proven right about automated spam, phishing and disinformation being a problem.
I have less problems with those now than I used to before AI. I think filters got better and what comes through is easily recognizable due to being AI generated. Also the awareness that things can be effortlessly made up to sell anything raised my baseline scepticism towards all information, which can be only good.
To be fair, they were proven right about automated spam, phishing and disinformation being a problem.
Yes, some of it looks silly now, though it's always easy to criticize with hindsight: the models could do unexpectedly impressive things and we didn't fully know the limit yet, it was a black box.
Remember you're critcising the org that actually made it public to people earlier than any other: the uncertainty was a temporary caution. The "open" in OpenAI was because they made it available, unlike Google at the time.
> To be fair, they were proven right about automated spam, phishing and disinformation being a problem
When the company that enables this, makes the predictions in the first place, that is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
> To be fair, they were proven right about automated spam, phishing and disinformation being a problem.
I have less problems with those now than I used to before AI. I think filters got better and what comes through is easily recognizable due to being AI generated. Also the awareness that things can be effortlessly made up to sell anything raised my baseline scepticism towards all information, which can be only good.