Vlad on The Third Place

Yes, LLMs can and likely will / do contribute to censorship :/ The only silver lining is that people will figure out ways around them. One of the nice things about our human language is, as Godel put it, it can't be both complete and consistent! So no matter how fancy an LLM is, it can't catch every possible way of expressing a particular concept. The tougher thing is LLMs making rich "paper" trails -- like info ops that come with pre-built websites, fake articles, even faked footage of something happening. This is already a problem, and will only become more of a problem with time... right now my gut feeling is that people will just get a lot more skeptical about anything they see online, and/or spend a lot more time in walled garden type spaces like Discord. I've recently started talking about LLMs as a tool, and that feels about right for me. A tool can be handy, can be useful... can be dangerous and socially disruptive. But perhaps treating it as a tool can make it feel a bit more manageable.