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by evolve2k·2y ago·view on hn ↗
I do think this is the blind spot in all of Altmans hyper competitive moves.

As a public we’ve had years of cultural warnings that this tech especially needs to be navigated with wisdom and ethical consideration.

Trust can initially be quickly gained, but once lost, very hard to regain.

I’m not sure about anyone else but I’m already cautious which questions I ask Chat GPT and I’m sure I’m not the only one.

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I think the trust comment is the crux of it. When AI can suddenly generate photorealistic images and answer any question, people wonder what it will be able to do next. Generate movies? TV shows? Video games even? And then a lawyer gets disbarred because ChatGPT made up cases and people's excitement starts to waver. And then people start using existing AI to make deepfake porn and people's excitement starts to waver. And then AI starts generating photorealistic black Nazis, and people's excitement starts to waver again. If the negative incidents keep happening but people's lives don't get better at the same time thanks to the utility of AI, people start asking "Are the downsides worth it?" and "Can we even trust the people making this stuff?".
>"Can we even trust the people making this stuff?"

The answer is no. Unequivocally, unambiguously, undoubtedly, no. Not a one. But even more so, distrust the people fated to own it.

This is why I think RTO is inevitable. We don’t know who anyone is for sure unless we are in the same room. We don’t have any privacy for sure unless we are in the same room. I’m buying commercial REITs while they are cheap.
To be fair, we don't know other people even if they're in the same room. We know the persona that they want us to know. Plenty of true crime stories start with "we never thought he could do something like this."
Alright, I don’t think managers are anywhere near as rational as you but I love your optimism.
Hopefully what it actually means is that AI become so mundane we treat it like electricity. It's completely unremarkable, but a miracle to those who knew about the before times.
Why are you cautious? Our lives don’t matter nor what we ask it. I suspect human ego has more to do with these fears than anything real or tangible. So many of us thought we were smart and it turns out we just had some small advantage in time or genetics that let us get used to a pattern others didn’t see or know yet.

And now we have a tech that can do that trivially. I love that it does that. And I look forward to the world and all the uncertainty it brings.