Problem is that the owner of the AI service has power over the model and thus can influence government decisions.
Maybe we should require that government use of AI should be required to use open models only.
>The Globalist Wall Street Journal has no idea what they are doing or saying. They are owned by the polluted thinking of the European Union, which was formed for the primary purpose of “screwing” the United States of America... (Truth Social today)
The main problem is that it is easier to sound competent and less effort to spam. Like, the competence and effort filter is gone.
It's completely bonkers that people keep saying stuff like this, virtually implying that we didn't have a functional society before LLMs.
LLMs are tools that generate word salads that sound compelling. They are not research aids and they can't help you understand things better than the plethora of tools we already developed over the centuries can.
So no, the alternative is policy makers doing what policy makers have always done: research, polling, reading, talking, and more research.
Now you'll likely come back and say "but X policy was bad and it was because it was poorly researched". Absolutely! Yes, bad policies exist. Poorly researched policies exist. Poorly implemented policies exist.
Good policies researched well also exist. And the bad ones aren't going away because of the magical word generator.
Seriously. Stop using LLMs to "help" you do stuff you already know how to do.
In the United States, lobbyists have approached lawmakers with pre-written legislation and pitched it to them.
I would rather have lawmakers asking LLMs to explain concepts to them than the absolute mess we had back when a House committee was trying to evaluate SOPA with absolutely zero domain knowledge:
I addressed that: bad policies and decisions don't go away just because of LLMs. They will always exist, it's just that now they'll exist at the same time as people gaslighting themselves into believing that LLMs are helping to eliminate them.
> Now you'll likely come back and say "but X policy was bad and it was because it was poorly researched". Absolutely! Yes, bad policies exist. Poorly researched policies exist. Poorly implemented policies exist.
> Good policies researched well also exist. And the bad ones aren't going away because of the magical word generator.
You will notice that the US is gearing up for additional warfare with the help of AI.
Why?
Or, you know, consulting experts.
Sometimes they go to the other extreme and think experts are gods, and do not question the advice, check whether other experts would disagree with it etc.
Ask it about something you don't know: you'll learn something new.
Ask it about something you do know: you'll raise your eyebrow, "huh that's not quite right..."