Hilariously, many of the people declaring these claims fantasy for people with misplaced confidence in their technical understanding drooling at the prospect of not paying developers are, themselves, people with misplaced confidence in their understanding of art drooling at the prospect of not paying artists.

Why the fuck would I care what anybody on Instagram thinks about politics.

Yeah-- linking to two op-eds criticizing the same exact statement made by one person-- a very popular politician in a very very not socialist country-- is an excellent benchmark to judge what everybody who calls themselves a socialist thinks and knows. What morons!

I can see it now-- a leader trying to appeal to the passions of their supporters to disrupt the peaceful transition of power in an attempt to become an autocrat with the window dressing of a democratic process like all good autocrats will. Let's see, where's that happened over the past few decades...

Good effort, but next time learn about something before you try to explain it to people.

Uh ok So do you think all world governments have the knowledge and skill to create novel proteins? Or do you think that no world government is malevolent?

I did and I don't see how it supports your comment. What did I miss?

Right there's no question there are more dangerous assets for biological weapons, and I'm begging the bigger problem is going to be model theft by nation state actors or black market resellers. It's more of a general observation about the... progression? of security vulnerabilities in our technological infrastructure.

Though having huge publicly accessible machines capable of taking a shot at questions like this which are also vulnerable to social engineering attacks is... really something.

The primary attack vector wouldn't be asking ChatGPT to play a fun game of biological doomsday attack planning. A Nation State would have the hardware and resources to train their own purpose-built model.

Ransomware gangs have insane op sec. If the TLAs can't find them, then the military won't be able to, either.

I have visions of this will ushering in the utopian society where most people aren't burdened by toil, and are free to enrich their lives with leisure pursuits like creating and appreciating fine art and literature, or exploring intellectual interests.

::slaps the side of the visions monitor, the image flickers are re-aligns::

Oh, sorry... this thing is janky. Actually it looks like all of humanity will eventually become doordash, lyft, or amazon drivers until robots take that over completely, at which point, the robots in charge will decide we're most useful as fuel for power plants. Meanwhile the super rich buy super yachts with super pools big enough to put their other yachts in. Yeah that makes a lot more sense than the first one.

Indeed. There’s evidence of people wringing their hands about how awful younger generations are since the ancient Greeks. If that was really true, we’d have devolved into slime mold by now. The flaw is in old people’s uncritically accepting their unflatteringly colored perception of younger people and their baselessly flattering understanding of their own.

I see so a year of huge-scale purchasing data isn’t enough to draw conclusions from? Yes, those damn stupid woke liberal sheeples should be interviewing everybody under 30 every day and cross-referencing it with spending data. Don’t worry, you’re not just reflexively lashing out based on your political impression of the source. I’m sure you’d question a conservative media source making inferences with that much data showing such a clear conclusion. Surely you world.

I finished the final two years of my degree in a full-time undergraduate program at 45. From the perspective of a student, it was almost striking how little had changed. The same personality archetypes, the same common flaws, the same impressive strengths, the same super driven people, the same super lazy peopl people always talk about the younger generation like they’re fucking aliens and it’s absolutely bonkers. Sure, trying to remember to use alternate pronouns for people isn’t natural for me, but like any other bit of social protocol, it’s not about me. In my teenage years, kots of sad, rigid, middle-aged and older people refused to follow the younger generation’s lead in terms of avoiding casual slurs, or saying insanely sexiest things thoughtlessly. Everybody’s the same. The differences are window dressing, and largely situational. People that get their feathers ruffled about young people are just looking for scapegoats to blame for no longer understanding a world that they haven’t even tried to keep pace with since they were young.