Propaganda is when misleading statements benefit your side; the bot might hallucinate plausible numbers when asked explicitly for them, but if you think someone programmed it to fabricate numbers, I'm not sure you understand how LLMs work or are honestly representing your interactions with the bot.
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Propaganda commonly but doesn't necessarily imply usage of misleading statements. Its definition is neutral: communication primarily used to influence opinion.
I don't think @titotal either thinks or implies someone explicitly programmed your bot to fabricate numbers. He's simply pointing out that the bot's de-facto prone to making stuff up.
Not sure what the author's argument is, but here's my interpretation: AI risk being a Knightian uncertainty is an argument against assigning P(doom) to it.
I'm curious to see how EA-in-the-east will develop. I think it could take on very different characteristics compared to the west. Perhaps less thinking about impact in terms of a single individual, but rather as a collective?
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