Technology

One of the worst parts of this boom in LLM models is the fact that they can "invade" online spaces and control a narrative. For an example, just go on twitter and scroll to the comments on any tagesschau (german news site) post- it's all rightwing bots and crap. LLMs do have uses, but the big problem is that a bad actor can basically control any narrative with the amount of sheer crap they can output. And OpenAI does nothing- even though they are the biggest provider. It earns them money, after all.

I also can't really think of a good way to combat this. If you would verify people using an ID, you basically nuke all semblance of online anonymity. If you have some sort of captcha, it will probably be easily bypassed- it doesn't even need to be tricked. Just pay some human in a country with extremely cheap labour that will solve it for your bot. It really sucks.