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> The near-term dangers of the technology include misinformation, insidious bias and discrimination against marginalised groups and minorities All of the same
by jstarfish 3y ago
> The near-term dangers of the technology include misinformation, insidious bias and discrimination against marginalised groups and minorities
All of the same could be said of the internet itself when AOL started its outreach. By god, anybody can publish anything-- and just like that, it becomes truth!
They said the same about the printing press, and probably that heretic Martin Luther too.
The FUD is reaching "eternal damnation" levels of histrionics. You keep saying we're in danger of this apocalyptic event, but nobody seems to know what the hell you're talking about. What exactly do you know about this tech that we don't?
More and more it looks like minority groups are trying to wrest control of the technology away from the masses, citing vague dangers like people misleading each other, such that we once again have to depend on a handful of ordained priests to interpret the Word of God and deliver us from evil. We trust priests, right?
Human interests have flooded the streets with guns such that children are murdering each other in schools. Human laws force women to carry pregnancies to term even if it kills them. Human-engineered addiction goes unchecked. But we're told a fucking NPC they created is an existential threat to humanity-- and that their historically-reckless corporate creators should be entrusted with exclusive governance over it.
From what I've seen, current instruct-based models are frighteningly adept at fraud and manipulation, but we downplay both as "hallucination." Nobody citing safety is talking about the danger of trusting a clearly-mentally-ill entity as a source of truth though, because that would lead to fear and distrust of the product...