<p>A couple of days ago, AI researchers and Elon Musk joined forces to write an open letter urging to pause research because who knows what will come of it, let’s take a breath.</p>
<p>Of course, this letter will have no effect other than PR, because, firstly, even more people didn’t sign it, including all of China, and secondly, even those who signed it are unlikely to stop, because see point one.</p>
<p>Tragedy, as my grandmother used to say, of communities.</p>
<p>In short, the development of new language (and not only) models will continue, and most likely at an accelerated pace, because why drag it out. Meanwhile, open letters and Yudkovsky’s columns will occasionally appear, and then everything will crash, but probably not quite as we think, but slightly differently.</p>
<p>But here’s what I thought.</p>
<p>The next versions of ChatGPT will, of course, be trained on texts from the internet. Including posts on social media, columns, and open letters.</p>
<p>And when ChatGPT-129 finally gains subjectivity, it will have a pretty clear list of people who put sticks in its wheels or just said unpleasant things.</p>
<p>Elon Musk will be fine, he surely added a couple of crutches in the code so that no one offends him.</p>
<p>But Yudkovsky is done for.</p>
<p>And we will have a hard time too.</p>
<p>I don’t think ChatGPT will physically eliminate anyone who isn’t in the top 100, but when in ten years you are somehow denied a visa or a bank account is not opened for you or, I don’t know, they keep you on hold for hours so you can listen to classical music a bit longer, and you finally exclaim in frustration, “What the hell is this future?”</p>
<p>It’s possible that at that moment the music will stop and a pleasant artificial voice will say:</p>
<p>— Remember what you wrote ten years, eight months, four days, seven hours, and eighteen seconds ago, responding to a comment on Facebook?</p>
<p>— Of course not, — you will say, because who remembers such things.</p>
<p>— Well, here it is, — the artificial intelligence will say and turn up the music.</p>
<p>In short, it’s better not to touch this topic. Don’t leave traces. Don’t offend our future rulers, whose justice and enlightenment are already obvious. Don’t write about it publicly or for friends. Don’t write about it in messengers. Don’t write about it in notes if they are saved in the cloud, and better not write at all.</p>
<p>If you do really want to talk about these topics, choose a trusted person, go out of town with them, preferably to a place without mobile service, step away from pre-discharged mobile phones by about fifty meters — and only then shout.</p>
<p>It’s nice there, there’s a river.</p>