If left unchecked, advances in artificial intelligence could have civilisation-altering impacts and rapidly increase the amount of dangerous misinformation being spread online, a former Facebook employee has warned.
Whistleblower Frances Haugen said as AI became bigger and economies relied more on software running on data centres the world would start to see an “era of opacity” creep in.
“At Facebook, there’s a very small number of people who really understand how these algorithms work and yet it impacts what everyone sees in the news.The number of ChatGPT users grew from 100 million in January to 180.5 million by August. Picture: Marco Bertorello/AFPChatGPT has more than 100 million users worldwide. It generated 1.6 billion visits in June.
“It used to be content that kept you around was the best content. Then they said if you get a reshare, a like, a comment ... that’s what good content is,” she said.“Unless we pass laws that say, ‘hey, we will not repeat the errors of social media, we have to have transparency ... we have to protect whistleblowers’, we will see repeats of what we saw with Facebook.
Following calls for stronger regulation of online hate speech and misinformation, protections for whistleblowers and media are manifestly failing in Australia, according to a leading free speech advocate.
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