> Ford straight up proved that Béla Barényi (of Mercedes Benz) ideas around crumple zones is all a big waste of time. The world didn't end with the 1938 Ford Prefect[0].
The world won't end overnight with an open fork of ChatGPT.
But it will mean the signal-to-noise ratio rapidly shifts, that spammers and scammers will be much more effective, and that even minor special interest groups (or individuals) get the ability to cheaply fake a diverse crowd of people to support any cause at a slightly higher standard of discourse than the current waterline for random internet comments.
[0] I don't know for certain it didn't have a crumple zone, but given when the patent was granted to Mercedes Benz…
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7nby/researchers-think-ai-...
Second: I'm just as concerned about automated generation of propaganda as they seem to be. Given what LLMs are currently capable of doing, a free cyber-Goebbels for every hate group is the default: the AI itself only cares about predicting the next token, not the impact of having done so.
Edit:
Also, the headline of the Vice story you linked to is misleading given the source document that the body linked to.
1. Of the 6 researchers listed as authors of that report, only 2 are from OpenAI
2. Reduced exports of chips from the USA are discussed only briefly within that report, as part of a broader comparison with all the other possible ways to mitigate the various risks
3. Limited chip exports does nothing to prevent domestic propaganda and research