I don't see any danger or any difference between the situation now and the situation in a world with eloquently writing AIs.
There are millions of shouted out opinions. Twitter ist build for that. This is not interesting at all. I can look for opinions I agree with to get a kick from the feeling of confirmation. To get that kick it is not important how the opinion snippet was produced.
On the other hand there are interesting stories with thoughts new to me. I am thankful to read something like that. When some day AI will be able to enrich the intellectual world with fresh ideas, why should I be afraid? I'll be excited.
But also in this case the same is true: why should it matter to me who wrote the thought-provoking essay?
Will it be like: ...oh, that's an interesting idea... But no, an AI wrote this, OMG, it's tainted and worthless!
I don't think so.
It won't be just a text and image generation model, the train ride doesn't stop. They are also learning how to act.
Soon the GPT's will learn video, which includes the video itself, the audio and the subtitles. There are billions of hours of video content on YouTube, this new modality will make it easier to learn the procedural knowledge (how we do things) that is not apparent in text or static images. The new GPT will be able to play games, use computers, control robots and do all sorts of reinforcement learning tasks. There are already a few papers, for ex: learning MineCraft from YT videos (https://openai.com/blog/vpt/).
Of course they will also generate long format videos. The problem with video is cost, it's very expensive.
There are millions of shouted out opinions. Twitter ist build for that. This is not interesting at all. I can look for opinions I agree with to get a kick from the feeling of confirmation. To get that kick it is not important how the opinion snippet was produced.
On the other hand there are interesting stories with thoughts new to me. I am thankful to read something like that. When some day AI will be able to enrich the intellectual world with fresh ideas, why should I be afraid? I'll be excited.
But also in this case the same is true: why should it matter to me who wrote the thought-provoking essay? Will it be like: ...oh, that's an interesting idea... But no, an AI wrote this, OMG, it's tainted and worthless! I don't think so.