I have noticed a trend with the general public and Antis in particular to deny anything said by someone in the field of AI.

It's not entirety new ground I'm covering here, but I feel there is a fundamental and surprising problem.

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A huge number of people seem to believe that EVERY SINGLE WORD from an AI company or person working in the field is 'Hype' or 'Marketing their product through fear'

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No matter how much an AI company announces their worries, these people believe every word is a lie.

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Don't get me wrong, I like a healthy dose of scepticism. But if you won't trust anyone in the field, then the only people you are getting your information from, are those that fundamentally do not understand the technology.

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In this scenario, IF models do indeed keep improving, the only people who actually understand the tech are those working in the field. More specifically those working in the top AI companies who are actually creating these models. If you can't trust a single one of them, under any circumstances, then many people will ignore the warnings as we sleepwalk towards a AGI or something similar that we cannot put back in the box.

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Perhaps this has already been posted and apologies if so. I have found it to be an interesting and common phenomenon.

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