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OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world'

221 points · 209 comments · cdrnsf

  1. 0c3ca83 · · focus · HN ↗
    Yes, if the product is seen as bad for the world, it won't sell. But it's pretty bad for people, and I don't know how you'd hide that for the people being harmed.
    1. BenzeneDream · · focus · HN ↗
      Its not pretty bad for people.
      1. 0c3ca83 · · focus · HN ↗
        Go talk to an artist, a junior developer, or a musician. And then realize that the goal is to generalize the damage to every other intellectual domain.
        1. bradishungry · · focus · HN ↗
          Don’t forget the effect on students! It has the potential to be a great learning tool, but nothing is in place for that to happen. It more likely just kills all reinforcement learning
          1. petcat · · focus · HN ↗
            > kills all reinforcement learning

            I have the opposite experience. My intellectual curiosity has increased immensely since starting to use Chat GPT. I can snap a picture and instantly know what kind of bug I am looking at, whether I am looking at a Red-Tailed hawk or a Red-Shouldered hawk and how to tell the difference, what the gauges on my water tank and boiler mean, and numerous other things that I am curious about daily.

            These are things around me that I wouldn't have bothered to investigate just due to time and effort. And now I appreciate all these little curiosities more than ever.

            1. j4yav · · focus · HN ↗
              Being able to look something up real quick isn’t the same as knowing something, is it, especially in the specific absence of some reinforcement mechanism to retain it?
              1. petcat · · focus · HN ↗
                This is suggesting that I can only know something if I had to painstakingly research and discover it myself?
                1. jplusequalt · · focus · HN ↗
                  No, but your example of being able to quickly look something up doesn't back up your claim that AI will boost everyone's ability to learn.
                  1. ipsod · · focus · HN ↗
                    It does, though. Whether or not they take advantage of it... "You can lead a horse to water..."
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