Completely agree, if you have an actual concern, specify it. Do you think deepfakes will cause a credibility crisis? Do you think LLMs will ruin anonymous internet discussions? These are tangible and realistic problems, but both technologies have existed for years and people have been talking about these problems for a while as long as they’ve existed, so it’s annoying for people to come out of nowhere and assume that nobody cares or start a panic saying we need to axe them because you just learned about them and got scared.
It’s unproductive and pointless to argue about hypotheticals that don’t map to anything close to current technology.
Is your contention that the risks you mention are completely uncorrelated to the availability and quality of these tools, or that the availability and quality haven't increased in recent months?
What I’m contending is that there are real present/upcoming risks which we should directly address, rather than hypothetical risks that aren’t well defined.
I personally believe that the present risks are addressable with existing technology and that we can handle it as a society.
When controlling a forest fire you don’t really just dump water on where the fire is currently burning. You do controlled burns and clear cutting and various prep work in the path of the fire.
It seems extremely clear and well-defined that the specific, present risks you mention will be amplified by the obvious progress and increased availability of the tools. That’s not really super vague at this point and we can definitely be addressing it.
It’s unproductive and pointless to argue about hypotheticals that don’t map to anything close to current technology.