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Why do we need to regulate ai?
by Grazester 3y ago
Why do we need to regulate ai?
- ThrowawayTestr 3y agoThe chat bots might be allowed to say bad words.
- Animats 3y agoIt seems silly, but that's an insightful remark. AI systems mis-identifying people and getting them arrested - minor problem. Systems firing people for underperforming - that's just a company exercising its right to enforce "at-will employment". Chatbots designed to make it difficult or impossible to cancel a service - almost standard. Announcing a hiring freeze while jobs are replaced with AI systems - that's productivity. But a system that will answer "Rank races by intelligence" gets people very upset.
- flangola7 3y agoA cyber attack that publicizes your patient records database or wipes your production configs are also "bad words" if you type them in a terminal.
- slaymaker1907 3y agoUnder the current copyright regime, I think we need very strict protections for creators and these huge AI models that can generate new content. Maybe make works with copyright require a separate and explicit permission for training and structure in a specific way so that it is not easy to get permission for this stuff without paying creators (so no just slurping up data from GitHub using ToS, they'd have to get explicit agreements from developers).
- Grazester 3y agoAi is just the tool. The copyright issue is now with the derived work produced by ai. So what is meant by regulate ai is amend existing laws for the age of ai?
- flangola7 3y agoCan you really not see how this will automate harm at massive parallelized scale? Even if you're nearsighted you can see how the internet will in short order be rendered useless by fake real-time interaction and digital malice. Look at how much automated ssh poking you get on an IP address. Look at how much email you receive without a comprehensive spam filter (it's much more than shows up in your Gmail spam folder). If we combine that level of relentless volume and speed with moderate skills at hacking, fraud, influence campaigns, abuse, and so on, the internet will break. Look at the all the plugins GPT-4 has already. Do you really think if a system with those capabilities, with evil intent, running millions of threads, wouldn't cause untold levels of harm? If not, then at which point do you push for regulation? Do you wait until anyone can build a literal terminator in their basement? Openai is already working on robotic control models, so that's not likely not far off. All I see are mindless silicon valley tech-optimists who can't see the forest for the trees.
- Grazester 3y agoWe already get spammed and hammered by bots without ai so? Did we manage to somehow regulate away existing systems to stop this? No, so why put ai behind a bunch of regulation. Maybe in a dystopia we have ai judges...wait he already have judges using shitty software for sentencing. You want to further regulate what I can build in my basement?
- yunwal 3y ago> Did we manage to somehow regulate away existing systems to stop this? No, but other countries have. We just don't do regulation because we're America or something (and because the FCC has been gutted). No European country has the same level of spam phone calls that we do.
- failuser 3y agoIt creates situations no existing laws cover or are ambiguous about. Copyright, for example. Can you demand the training data to exclude your works? Can you circumvent GPL by using machine learning? Can you make discrimination legal by flaming AI did it? Can you sue for damages when AI produces incorrect result?
- mrguyorama 3y agoBecause palintir keeps trying to sell "just arrest all the black people" to the judicial system as "AI", and is also trying to sell "just let the computer blow everyone up" to the military. We don't need AGI for "AI" to make our lives worse.