[mola]

I have this pet theory that this wave of AI won't end with amazing productivity gains.

I think it'll end in mass confusion. Dumbing down of the leadership and elites that now can cosplay as smart and eloquent.

countries that don't embrace AI will have a massive edge over other countries because their population will be smarter and more capable.

[TYPE_FASTER]

It’s all about trust. Which sources of journalism are trustworthy? Is the government administration trustworthy?

You can’t trust an administration that would release a report that cites sources that do not exist. They are either so incompetent that they cannot perform the most basic fact checking possible, or they think we are idiots who can be easily misled.

[mandmandam]

> they think we are idiots who can be easily misled.

... I mean... Do you want a list of times that the American public has been easily misled?

[downboots]

The error was retracted. This is a clear example for an industry or branch for ensuring accuracy. We could call it the ministry of truth.

[SillyUsername]

It makes me remember a story I'd read, about a certain "Comrade Ogilvy", who recently died a hero whilst serving. Theres no real records of this guy, but a few lines text and a couple of faked photographs seemed easy enough to do.

[kevinventullo]

I don’t think eloquence or the appearance of intelligence is all that valuable for political leadership these days.

[mrtksn]

Are the countries with limited Internet better off in regards to the issues that Internet has created? Maybe, but they are also missing out on the progress of the society because despite the issues it also created a lot of opportunities and changed how we do things in general.

[acquisitionsilk]

I have entertained a similar notion when imagining the direction industries that make software might go from here. There's a possible future where some sizeable percentage of companies goes extra hard in the direction of "LLMs in, costly programmers out", and end up getting completely smashed when the LLM systems fall apart.

There might even be a couple of months of "gains" as (pointless) metrics go up, and then we might see a proper crash when stuff stops working. Especially for software which businesses rely on, surely there must be a point where they'll say enough of this crap?

Maybe not, too. Capitalism is a very surprising system, capable of absorbing shocks and morphing itself seemingly endlessly.

[dheera]

We had mass confusion and politician hallucination well before LLMs.

I'm not really sure anything has changed.

[tokioyoyo]

Tolerance for error of an average human is higher than one expects. It’s a cultural problem that’s getting more prominent in the West, because people genuinely start looking down on education. I have over-educated family members who are firm set on “my children don’t have to study hard, I’m sure they’ll smart enough to make big money at the end” idea.

[jimmydddd]

Or maybe they will come on-line with AI after it's been sufficiently improved, and not have wasted time and resources on the early versions. Kind of like countries that never had an installed copper landline phone infrastructure, and then leap-frogged the US by going directly to a mobile infrastructure.

[conception]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42707238 Nobody cares.