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> Who is at their laptops thinking, “damn I wish I could ethnically cleanse people but gosh darn I just don’t know where to begin”? I certainly have things I'm
by sangnoir 3y ago
> Who is at their laptops thinking, “damn I wish I could ethnically cleanse people but gosh darn I just don’t know where to begin”?
I certainly have things I'm morbidly curious about that I don't want in Google's logs, but wouldn't bat an eye to ask a local LLM. While my motivation is innocuous, I'm far from the only one - you can find the many cases were the accused people had (recently) searched the internet on how to commit a crime there were charged with (with corroborating evidence).
Regardless on where you stand on the free speech continuum, this model will lower the bar on finding "taboo" information like making improvised explosive devices or toxins, and make it harder to trace those who sought that information during investigations.
- sebzim4500 3y agoHaving used Mistral, I would not recommend relying on its instructions to make an improvised explosive device.
- K0balt 3y agolol. There is a technical manual openly published by the US Dept of the army in 1969, freely downloadable online, and for sale in military surplus stores that is a better source for that. I guess you could fine tune it on the manual? TBF many of the procedures in the manual are extremely dangerous if not done exactly right, and still very dangerous if you do. The purpose of the manual was basically, if your choice is make this or be shot for sure, maybe give it a whirl lol.
- i8comments 3y agoI say it is good if people with bad intentions blow themselves up from following questionable instructions, and also good to keep them paranoid about it.
- TaylorAlexander 3y agoThey might hurt innocent people like neighbors, housemates, family members, or random members of the public with their mistakes.
- squeaky-clean 3y agoThat's not an AIs fault though.
- kelseyfrog 3y agoThat's a legal question we have yet to resolve.
- TaylorAlexander 3y agoI only meant to challenge the suggestion that no meaningful harm comes from this kind of misinformation. A bomb maker hurting themselves could hurt other people. Now probably this does not mean we should “blame” the AI, but it’s still important to understand what harms may come when we think about how to manage new technologies, even if the answer is “do nothing”.
- gruez 3y ago>I certainly have things I'm morbidly curious about that I don't want in Google's logs, but wouldn't bat an eye to ask a local LLM. That sounds like way more work than just downloading tor browser and searching away, which gets you approximately the same results. Sure, I wouldn't trust the setup if you're trying to commit a mass terrorist event, but for a murder or two I doubt the NSA is going to tip their hand to bust you.
- pk-protect-ai 3y agoOne can freely obtain full Wikipedia dumps and search through them as much as they like.