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[edgyquant]

I just don’t see how it’s going to be significantly worse than existing troll farms etc. This prediction appears significantly overblown to me.

[forgetfreeman → edgyquant]

Does it really? You thinking LLM-powered propaganda distribution services can't out-scale existing troll farms? Or do a better job of evading spam filters?

[edgyquant → forgetfreeman]

No I’m thinking that scaling trolls up has diminishing returns and we’re already peak troll.

[nullsense → edgyquant]

Any evidence or sources for that? I just don't know how that would be knowable to any of us.

Yuval Noah Harari gave a great talk the other day on the potential threat to democracy from the current state of the technology - https://youtu.be/LWiM-LuRe6w

[nullsense → edgyquant]

Only time will tell.