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>>davidb+(OP)
Nothing makes me think of Altman as a grifter more than his trying to spook uneducated lawmakers with sci-fi notions like "superintelligence" for which there are no plausible mechanisms or natural analogues, and for which the solution is to lobby government build a moat around his business and limit his competitors. We do not even have a consensus around a working definition of "intelligence", let alone any evidence that it is a linear or unbounded phenomenon, and even if it were, there is no evidence ChatGPT is a route to even human-level intelligence. The sum total of research into this "field" is a series of long chains of philosophical leaps that rapidly escape any connection to reality, which is no basis for a wide-ranging government intervention.

>>lsy+c9
Exactly, I also struggle to take seriously the "security" concerns of an organisation that releases this product with plugins and no proper way to restrict them and what they can do. The prompt injections are just ridiculous and show a complete lack of thought going into the design [0].

"move fast and break things"

It very much feels like they are trying to build a legislative moat, blocking out competitors and even open source projects. Ridiculous.

I don't fear what this technology does to us, I fear what we do to each other because of it. This is just the start.

0: https://twitter.com/wunderwuzzi23/status/1659411665853779971

> Let ChatGPT visit a website and have your email stolen.

> Plugins, Prompt Injection and Cross Plug-in Request Forgery.