Tangentially, this made me wonder whether the ppl running EAF/LW/etc are thinking about and “ready” wrt the risk of mass-produced BS from LLMs flooding online spaces, including potentially forums like these.
I’m not sure if they are, but personally, I wouldn’t be too concerned. If a bunch of new accounts joined that started to produce a bunch of maybe-fake-seeming content, that seems bad but not catastrophic.
If LLMs could genuinely do writing well enough to do well on the EA Forum, there are lots of positive things we could do with that.
If LLMs could genuinely do writing well enough to do well on the EA Forum, there are lots of positive things we could do with that.
I agree there are those things, but I am overall probably more pessimistic than you; I think there is a (significant) assymmetry towards pollution-y and not-truth-conducive content production here.
(That said, I am not too concerned overall either; I think the solution of making it harder/require some form of verification to make an account.)
Tangentially, this made me wonder whether the ppl running EAF/LW/etc are thinking about and “ready” wrt the risk of mass-produced BS from LLMs flooding online spaces, including potentially forums like these.
I’m not sure if they are, but personally, I wouldn’t be too concerned. If a bunch of new accounts joined that started to produce a bunch of maybe-fake-seeming content, that seems bad but not catastrophic.
If LLMs could genuinely do writing well enough to do well on the EA Forum, there are lots of positive things we could do with that.
I agree there are those things, but I am overall probably more pessimistic than you; I think there is a (significant) assymmetry towards pollution-y and not-truth-conducive content production here.
(That said, I am not too concerned overall either; I think the solution of making it harder/require some form of verification to make an account.)