But that's not a problem with AI. That's a problem with the person using it.
Maybe, but it's a problem
for everyone.
AI is pissing in the Internet punchbowl.
Whether that's a problem
with piss, or a problem
with the guy who pisses, it's a problem
for everyone who wants to be able to consume the Internet's content.
AI is bad because it generates pollution - misinformation - but AI pollution is worse than most, because there is a
huge amount of it, and it is extremely hard to detect.
There are lots of flags that indicate that a text was written by a person who doesn't know what he is talking about. AI is extremely good at avoiding those red flags; It is a confident and convincing liar.
It doesn't know it's lying; It consequently doesn't give itself away by subconsciously providing defensive clues that a human liar would find hard to avoid, nor by trying to hedge its bets in anticipation of being called out.
Such effective liars are rare amongst humans, but are dangerous nonetheless, despite the very small contribution they can make to our total store of information.
AI can (and is) generating vast torrents of highly confident and plausible sounding falsehoods. This is not going to end well.
