Samizdat works well for getting information inside traditional censorious barriers, but there is no comparable solution for getting information through walls of social noise.
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iirc there's good research showing that the new move by authoritarian govts to counter information accessibility brought about by the internet is just to flood it with disinfo, thus raising the costs of obtaining accurate info
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Wait till GPT-x can flood the internet with endless coherent sounding noise at the flip of a switch
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I mean if GTP-human complete is released tomorrow we're all fucked but hopefully there is enough lag time such that we can build alternative media ecosystems that can handle such a wave of disinformation
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"what if off-the-shelf AI capable of passing the turing test arrived tomorrow" is a good prompt for a scifi story but if we have such capacity we can also build tools to filter disinfo
I'm concerned but not defeated
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Adversarial learning would mean an arms race between GPT and the filters trying to detect, all while humans stay at the same uncomprehending level
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except you aren't just taking in information without zero context. You could build whole web of trust systems to independently verify information
if you can posit advanced AI I can posit alternative information infrastructures
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You can build whatever complex systems of trust you like running on blockchain in the cloud powered by 8K 5G machine learning and it won’t mean diddly squat to your average info-normie whose biases is being confirmed 24/7 by a hose of AI tailored disinfo pointed at their brain
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poorly cuz we relied on centralized systems suited to a particular environment that predictably failed when the broader context changed