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I think people see the patient/well-read in the text as it reads, but have a harder time distinguishing the other more pyschopathic/delusional tendencies. Peopl
by WorldMaker 4y ago
I think people see the patient/well-read in the text as it reads, but have a harder time distinguishing the other more pyschopathic/delusional tendencies. People don't take some of the precautions because they don't read some of the warning signs (until it is too late).
I keep wondering if it would be useful to add required "teenage" quirks to the output: more filler words like "um" and "like" (maybe even full "Valley Girl" with it?), less "self-assured" vocabulary and more hedges like "I think" and "I read" and "Something I found but I'm not sure about" type things. Less punctuation, more uncaring spelling mistakes.
I don't think we can stop anthropomorphizing them, but maybe we can force training deeper in directions of tics and mannerisms that better flag ahead of time the output is a best-guess approximation from "someone" a bit unreliable. It will probably make them slightly worse as assistants, but slightly better at seeming to be what they are and maybe more people will take precautions in that case.
Maybe we have to force that industry-wide. Force things like ChatGPT to "sound" more like the psychopaths they are so that people more easily take them with a grain of salt, less easily trust them.
- oezi 4y agoYou can already do the ums with a prompt. For any kind of industry regulation: the field is moving so fast that regulation will never catch it.
- WorldMaker 4y agoI didn't say "regulation". You can encourage norms in the model building stages. You can encourage norms in all sorts of places. The industry can certainly adopt "standards" or "best practices" not matter how fast the industry thinks it is moving.