That open letter did sound like a lot of the AI-hype fanatics: all speculation attributing more to these tools than there is.
I don't disagree that these tools and services ought to be regulated and agree that disinformation about their capabilities; real and speculated can be counter-productive.
Other real risks: fraud and scams. Call centre employees typically have to verify the person on the other side of the call. This is going to get less reliable with models that can impersonate voices and generate plausible sounding conversation. Combined with the ability to generate fake social media accounts, etc; social engineering is going off.
From a regulators' perspective we need to know that the companies providing services are doing everything they can to prevent such abuses which requires them to be open and to have a framework in place for practices that prevent abuse.
Just keeping up with the hype train around this is exhausting... I don't know how we expect society to keep up if we're all allowed to release whatever technology we want without anyone's permission regardless of harm: real or speculative.
We should probably focus on the real harm. Especially the hidden harms on exploited workers in the global south, the rising energy and compute infrastructure costs, etc.
I don't disagree that these tools and services ought to be regulated and agree that disinformation about their capabilities; real and speculated can be counter-productive.
Other real risks: fraud and scams. Call centre employees typically have to verify the person on the other side of the call. This is going to get less reliable with models that can impersonate voices and generate plausible sounding conversation. Combined with the ability to generate fake social media accounts, etc; social engineering is going off.
From a regulators' perspective we need to know that the companies providing services are doing everything they can to prevent such abuses which requires them to be open and to have a framework in place for practices that prevent abuse.
Just keeping up with the hype train around this is exhausting... I don't know how we expect society to keep up if we're all allowed to release whatever technology we want without anyone's permission regardless of harm: real or speculative.
We should probably focus on the real harm. Especially the hidden harms on exploited workers in the global south, the rising energy and compute infrastructure costs, etc.