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The first discussion we should be having, is whether guardrails make sense at all. When I was young and first fiddling with electronics, a friend and I put toge
by bradley13 2y ago
The first discussion we should be having, is whether guardrails make sense at all. When I was young and first fiddling with electronics, a friend and I put together a voice synthesizer. Of course we had it say "bad" things.
Is it really so different with LLMs?
You can use your word processor to write all sorts of evil stuff. Would we want "guardrails" to prevent that? Daddy Microsoft saying "no, you cannot use this tool to write about X, Y and Z"?
This sounds to me like a really bad idea.
- smcn 2y agoGiven the amount of people blindly trusting the output, I think that a case could be made that guardrails are a necessity for LLMs. The example in the article is medical diagnostics. Could you imagine if it started hallucinating and someone went with whatever insane advice it gave? Remember Google AI suggesting glue to keep cheese on pizza?
- euroderf 2y ago1994: "It's on the Internet, so it must be true." 2024: "It's from an artificial intelligence, so it must be true."
- smcn 2y agoThat'd be a convincing argument if the internet wasn't brainwashing a significant portion of adults into believing weird things about the political elite, vaccines, 5G, etc.