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Humans are perfectly capable of coming up with crimes, but in good news, they’re bad at planning crimes that won’t get caught. It’s not one of the biggest thin

Humans are perfectly capable of coming up with crimes, but in good news, they’re bad at planning crimes that won’t get caught. It’s not one of the biggest things I’d worry about in the world (in particular, “dumb enough to need a chat bot’s help, but smart enough to get a chat bot’s help” might be a small group), but putting safeguards in place to prevent chatbots from being crime coaches seems like a good thing to try. Edit: probably even more important, as far as the actual reason it exists, is that it’s a PR thing. Regardless of the actual harm, “the chatbot told me how to make meth” looks bad.

Wowfunhappy 4y ago
That's a good point. The flip side, however, is that OpenGPT is quite severely restricting what its AI can be used for, particularly if they do want to prevent these trivial "workarounds". Stories do in fact have villains who commit crimes, and an author dealing with writer's block might turn to an AI for inspiration. I'm not against restrictions if the benefits outweigh the harms, but the balance here seems pretty out of whack.
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thr0wawayf00 4y ago
> Humans are perfectly capable of coming up with crimes, but in good news, they’re bad at planning crimes that won’t get caught. How do we know this? We only know of the failed attempts, there's really no way to track how many crimes are successful outside of cases where there's obvious evidence (like a dead body).