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This is an old playbook from Facebook, where the company creates rules that they know they can not detect violation of. This gives the company plausible deniab
by bredren 4y ago
This is an old playbook from Facebook, where the company creates rules that they know they can not detect violation of.
This gives the company plausible deniability while still allowing ~unrestricted growth.
Persistent storage (in violation of TOS) and illicit use of Facebook users’ personal data was available to app developers for a long time.
It encouraged development of viral applications while throwing off massive value to those willing to break the published rules.
This resulted in outsized and unexpected repercussions though, including the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
People should be wary of the development as much as they are enthused. The power is immense and potential for abuse far from understood.
- elcomet 4y agoYou are certainly partly right, but it's also about liability. Those models might output copyrighted information, which Facebook doesn't want to get sued about. So they restrict the model for research. If someone uses it to replicate copyrighted work, they are not responsible.
- bredren 4y agoOpen AI faces the same liability concerns though. I think IP concerns are low on the list given past success of playing fast and loose on emergent capabilities of new tech platforms. For example, WhatsApp’s greyhat use of smartphone address book. The US government also has a stake in unbridled growth seems, in general, to give a pass to business exploring new terrain.