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I was kind of hoping they would ask it some political questions. One of the very concerning things for me about these kinds of systems is their impact on political discourse, especially online.

If a system can be trained to advocate for a political viewpoint to the level of online debate without human interaction that could cause some interesting effects in online discourse.

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It is inevitable that we will soon be able to auto-generate a whole conversation tree between fake participants, each fine-tuned to the desired level of fallacious reasoning in accordance with which position the botmaster wishes to promote.

Fortunately, humans are better at spotting reasoning errors in others than in themselves.

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