To a certain extent, you are right, but before LLMs generating convincing nonsense still requires a nontrivial investment. The cost of that is now approaching zero.
Yes. Wasn’t disagreeing.
Optimistically, scientists and consumers of science will need even more epistemic vigilance. Maybe that’s a good thing. Maybe credible gatekeepers will be in demand.
A tad off topic but I applied for a job online and was invited to do an AI interview
Not a sci-fi brain scan but five questions from chat bots
I got a mixed assessment some of it seemed to come from other sources I hadn’t mentioned also it seemed to have a fragile ego
I talked to a former system analyst who said that there are copyright issues because there is a certain amount of trawling going on with AI interviews
I mention this as it is possible if you think somebody is copying AI in an answer it’s possible that the AI is copying them it would seem
I do tend to think AI could be, like everything else, used for good or evil
I was rather hoping it might help with a kind of open Android: that when your phone or tablet stop being secure because you can’t get up to date security updates you could install open Android and stop a lot of waste by having to upgrade
Linux of course scores this way and I know in Sheffield a lot of computers were reused securely using Linux where there is no secure Microsoft solution
