

The human mind loves a good narrative, and tends to form opinions based on the wisdom of the masses, making us easy targets for such manipulation. If you wanted to start a new conspiracy theory, you could use GPT to insta-generate a plethora of websites laying out an argument, then flood social media and message boards with posts and comments in support. That includes obscene and pornographic content – anecdotally, a big favorite among many early users – as well as content many would define as hateful, harmful and dangerous.Įven if you leave aside the possibility that they might try to kill us all, these AIs could, for example, be the greatest misinformation tool ever created.

The raw GPT-4 language model – and any model like it – is capable of writing more or less anything a human might.
