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Robot being over-cautious gets you a discussion on HN. Robot being under-cautious gets you an article in WaPo and discussion about how your company is ruining o

by smsm42 3y ago

Robot being over-cautious gets you a discussion on HN. Robot being under-cautious gets you an article in WaPo and discussion about how your company is ruining our civilization on all the morning news. Which one could hurt you more? Which one the congressman that is going to regulate your business will be reading or watching and will be influenced by?

jiggawatts 3y ago
Why is there precisely one robot that we all have to share? Why must an author needing help writing raunchy adult stories have the same censorship applied in a glorified grammar checker as for a child getting help with their spelling? Is it really that hard for OpenAI or Google to fork their AI and have a few (more than zero) variants? Have machine learning people not heard of Git? Oh... oh... Never mind.
- smsm42 3y ago
  > Why is there precisely one robot that we all have to share? It doesn't matter. Any robot that says something controversial would be stomped upon by the press. They live for those moments. And if that robot has a competitor, even worse - now your under-caution is a competitive disadvantage, and your own board will grind you into dust for that. "Diversity is our strength" only when everybody is diverse in a uniform, approved, safe ways that does not cause anybody (or at least anybody important, like WaPo journalists) to feel bad. > Why must an author needing help writing raunchy adult stories Bu think of the children! Why do you hate the children so much?! > Is it really that hard for OpenAI or Google to fork their AI and have a few (more than zero) variants? Technically, it's trival. Socially... well, look on the news feed and count how many calls for more censorship can you spot within an average news day. Now multiply that times fear of robots that would generate perfect "misinformation" that would surely convince everybody to support your political opponents. Now you get how hard it is, socially.

by smsm42 3y ago

jiggawatts 3y ago

Why is there precisely one robot that we all have to share? Why must an author needing help writing raunchy adult stories have the same censorship applied in a glorified grammar checker as for a child getting help with their spelling? Is it really that hard for OpenAI or Google to fork their AI and have a few (more than zero) variants? Have machine learning people not heard of Git? Oh... oh... Never mind.

smsm42 3y ago
> Why is there precisely one robot that we all have to share? It doesn't matter. Any robot that says something controversial would be stomped upon by the press. They live for those moments. And if that robot has a competitor, even worse - now your under-caution is a competitive disadvantage, and your own board will grind you into dust for that. "Diversity is our strength" only when everybody is diverse in a uniform, approved, safe ways that does not cause anybody (or at least anybody important, like WaPo journalists) to feel bad. > Why must an author needing help writing raunchy adult stories Bu think of the children! Why do you hate the children so much?! > Is it really that hard for OpenAI or Google to fork their AI and have a few (more than zero) variants? Technically, it's trival. Socially... well, look on the news feed and count how many calls for more censorship can you spot within an average news day. Now multiply that times fear of robots that would generate perfect "misinformation" that would surely convince everybody to support your political opponents. Now you get how hard it is, socially.