All of that is possible with a sophisticated enough AI model. It can even write computer viruses.

In the copyright debates the AI engineers have contorted themselves into a carnival act telling the world that the outputs of the AI art are novel and not a copy. They've even granted the copyright to the prompt writers in some instances.

I'm pretty sure we won't have to wait for too long to see the positive and negative effects of unaligned AI. It's too bad we're not likely to have a deep discussion as a society about whether enough precautions have been taken before we experience it.

Machine language programmers are clearly not the voice of reason when it comes to this topic. Anymore more than virologists pushing gain of function research were the people who should have been steering the bus.