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> There is also a problem of injecting ethics and politics into those tools, which can produce silly results. Well, they can, but the "no filter" option does n
by emodendroket 2y ago
> There is also a problem of injecting ethics and politics into those tools, which can produce silly results.
Well, they can, but the "no filter" option does not necessarily generate satisfactory results either. I find it hard to blame Google for not wanting to put their brand on an AI providing a ranking list of races by intelligence or whatever kind of offensive thing people are going to try to make it produce.
- surfingdino 2y agoWe are talking about a code generator. Dev tools ought to be neutral when it comes to politics and ethics otherwise you get a smart hammer that will refuse to nail Jesus to a cross. That's not how tools work.
- emodendroket 2y agoSafety devices put into tools to prevent misuse or accidents are also not that unusual. Feel free to change my example to something like "a code snippet that will use the 23andMe API to prevent users with insufficient European ancestry from registering an account" if you want a more code-specific example of reputational risk from an unfiltered AI.