According to a report released last month by Eurasia Group, an American risk consulting firm, generative AI is one of the world’s three major geopolitical risks this year, following Russia and China.
“This year will mark a turning point for the role of disruptive technologies in society,” the report said.
According to the agency, the generative AI technology that has been making headlines in 2022 can create realistic images, videos, and text with just a few sentences of guidance.
“Large-scale language models such as GPT-3 and the upcoming GPT-4 will be able to reliably pass the Turing Test,” the report said.
The most famous use of this large-scale language model is in OpenAI’s ChatGPT, but the technology has also been licensed to many other vendors, and Microsoft has already begun adding it to Bing and has announced plans to include it in Office and other Microsoft applications.
The Turing test is an experiment in which a human interacts with another entity through a computer and guesses whether the entity on the other side is another human or an AI.
Some users are already convinced that ChatGPT is either sentient or actually being manned by the Philippines’ human military. And a Google engineer was fired last summer because he was convinced that Google’s version of the technology, LaMDa, had become self-aware.
These tools are now simple enough for anyone to harness the power of AI.
“These developments represent a step change in AI’s potential to manipulate people and sow political chaos,” the report said. “Once barriers to entry to content creation no longer exist, the amount of content will grow exponentially, making it impossible for most citizens to reliably distinguish between fact and fiction.”
This will have a negative impact on political discourse. Conspiracy theorists, like dictators, can create armies of bots to support their views.
Companies also have the potential to impact their stock prices and overwhelm emotion-driven investment strategies, as key executives can be impersonated by malicious actors, legitimate product reviews can be drowned in a sea of AI-generated comments, and social media posts can influence stock prices and overwhelm emotion-driven investment strategies. You may be affected.
Impact on Small Business Owners
If you are a small business owner, now is the time to develop a strategy to combat these threats.
In the OpenSim ecosystem, we have occasionally seen instances of individuals impersonating someone else in order to damage their reputation, or creating fake personas to promote a specific grid or service.
We can expect this activity to accelerate as AI technologies allow malicious actors to operate at a much larger scale than ever before.
In ~ Hypergrid business, we have yet to see a flood of AI-generated comment spam. I hope the Disqus platform we use for comments can filter out more bad content before it has to deal with it.
The grid that exists on social media requires you to start thinking about possible strategies or response plans in case something happens. It is always better to plan ahead than to react in the moment based on emotions. This usually only makes the situation worse.
But of course, there are also opportunities for companies to use generative AI for good.
OpenSim Grid uses this technology to create AI-based interactive NPCs to create interesting interactions for Grid visitors, ChatGPT to create an in-world storyline for users to experience, and a generative art platform to create interesting interactions for Grid visitors. You can create textures, images, and 3D objects. Even entire scenes.
Grid can also use AI to help you create marketing and promotional content such as articles, videos, or podcast episodes.
Marketing is the single biggest challenge facing OpenSim Grid and Services companies today. If AI can reduce some of the burden, it will be a huge win for the entire ecosystem.