>Honestly, we're at a time when weaponized chatGPT is powerful enough to easily topple most democratic nations. It could control the outcome of elections, if weaponized sufficiently.
Unless chatGPT is granted voting rights, it literally can't. If the majority of people vote for something and those people are all legally registered voters in the place where they vote and the votes are being tallied in a fair and accurate way, then there's nothing undemocratic about that election.
As I get it, GP is talking about ChatGPT running a fine-tuned propaganda campaign, replacing a troll farm with a single machine, deceiving and swaying people towards a different vote, thus disrupting the election.
If yes, then I'm skeptical of the statement - a machine could (I'm not even sure of this, though) lower down the cost of running a troll or scam farm, but it's not that government-run farms like that are suffering from budget issues.
> Unless chatGPT is granted voting rights, it literally can't. If the majority of people vote for something and those people are all legally registered voters in the place where they vote and the votes are being tallied in a fair and accurate way, then there's nothing undemocratic about that election.
Many democracies voted for a dictator that ended their democracies. Obviously a perfectly democratic election can end a democracy.
Given the opportunity, a weaponized ChatGPT could be weaponized to dominate online discussion by play-acting as thousands of different personas, could write to-the-person customized mailers, and completely dominate all current methods of politicking, easily winning an election.
Much like IT, humans are the biggest weakness, and weaponized AI has hit the point where it has a sufficient understanding of our psychology, it can be prompted to use it, and thus can functionally control us on a herd level, even if the special unique few swear they're above it.
Unless chatGPT is granted voting rights, it literally can't. If the majority of people vote for something and those people are all legally registered voters in the place where they vote and the votes are being tallied in a fair and accurate way, then there's nothing undemocratic about that election.