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Other than for entertainment purposes, who cares what a statistical analysis of English has to say about ethics?
by tiahura 3y ago
Other than for entertainment purposes, who cares what a statistical analysis of English has to say about ethics?
- karaterobot 3y agoIn theory, nobody should, it would be ridiculous. The answer to your question is: lots of people today, probably even more tomorrow.
- xanderlewis 3y agoWell, perhaps we ought to educate people better. And quickly. The real danger of LLMs is that people come to believe they hold some sort of authority — or that their output is in any way the end result of a process of deliberation and contemplation rather than simply being a (stochastically perturbed) best guess at what an answer should look like. Yes, people already take Google at face value, but at least (in theory) they know that anything they’re finding there is written either by an organisation with an axe to grind or an individual no more omniscient than they.
- FredPret 3y agoIf that's what it was, analyzing an entire language would be an interesting lens into how a large number of people think about ethics. But this one is more interesting because it shows us how Google thinks about ethics.