This exact approach can be used to enable mass-scale censorship, and that is terrifying.
Let's say you're running a website where users can buy and sell musical instruments. To avoid your astronomical fees, some users will put their contact details in their offers and then make the deal off site. Before LLMs, you couldn't really stop this, you could use regexes to block long strings of digits and strings containing '@' characters, but such methods could easily be circumvented. LLMs have almost human-like understanding of text, so whatever obfuscation method you think of, if a human can see through it, there's a large chance that an LLM can too.
Combine that with Whisper, and you can block anything, from conspiracy theories, to statements critical of your country's government, to methods to bypass your service's anti-adblock protections.
Let's say you're running a website where users can buy and sell musical instruments. To avoid your astronomical fees, some users will put their contact details in their offers and then make the deal off site. Before LLMs, you couldn't really stop this, you could use regexes to block long strings of digits and strings containing '@' characters, but such methods could easily be circumvented. LLMs have almost human-like understanding of text, so whatever obfuscation method you think of, if a human can see through it, there's a large chance that an LLM can too.
Combine that with Whisper, and you can block anything, from conspiracy theories, to statements critical of your country's government, to methods to bypass your service's anti-adblock protections.