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I feel compelled to note that the "another lawyer" (Steven Schwartz) was the listed notary on Peter LoDuca's initial affadavit wherein he attached the fraudulent cases in question. This document also appears to have been substantially generated by ChatGPT, given that it gives an impossible date (January 25th) for the notarization. Really undermines Schwartz's claim that he did all the ChatGPT stuff and LoDuca didn't know about any of it.
The thought that people put this much trust in ChatGPT is extremely disturbing to me. It's not Google! It's not even Wikipedia! It's probabilistic text generation! Not an oracle! This is insanity!
Could this be the long awaited AI disaster that finally forces the reluctant world to implement Katechon Plan?
Things are moving fast - while few weeks ago only ugly fat nerds talked about this issue, now handsome and slim world leaders are raising alarm.
I expected something like mass shooting where the perpetrator will be found to be radicalized by AI, but this is even better.
AI endangering our democratic rule of law and our precious justice system? No way.
Maybe, but as @astrolabia admits, doomers may be living on borrowed time, same as accelerationists. With every day more people learn that AI is incredibly helpful. Some journalists who haven't got the message yet are convincing the public that AI returns vision to the blind and legs to the paralyzed. «Imagine if you as my fellow product of hill-climbing algorithm were eating ice cream and the outcome pump suddenly made your atoms disassemble into bioweapon paperclips, as proven to be inevitable by Omohundro in…» looks increasingly pale on this background.
Yes, although every person who sees that GPT-4 can actually think is also a potential convert to the doomer camp. As capabilities increase, both the profit incentive and plausibility of doom will increase together. I'm so, so sad to end up on the side of the Greta Thunbergs of the world.
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