alt Hacker News> people are complaining because it’s way easier now to just download an app ask a bunch of questions in a text box and get a bunch of answers that you personally could not have done unless you had an excessive amount of energy and motivation
Wait, I'm confused. This is gatekeeping, right? I thought gatekeeping was a Bad Thing!
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Powerful AI models change the dynamics by greatly reducing the amount of effort that's required to perform complex understanding. A lot of information which did not previously need to be gatekept now needs to be if we cannot somehow keep LLMs from discussing it. (State of the art models still can't do complex understanding reliably, but if 10 times as many people are now capable of attempting some terrible thing, you're still in trouble if AI hallucinations catch 1/4 or 1/2 of them.)
It’s like anything else
once people realize something is powerful they have to try to put it in a box
the people who’ve been working on AGI for the last 30 years, including guys like me, have been talking about this problem since basically forever
I’ll give credit that at least the AI Box problem was interesting thought experiment for newbies
Reap what “yew” sew