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The society voted with their money. Google refrained from launching their early chatbots and image generation tools due to perceived risks of unsafe and mislead
by ddalex 2y ago
The society voted with their money. Google refrained from launching their early chatbots and image generation tools due to perceived risks of unsafe and misleading content being generated, and got beaten to the punch in the market. Of course now they'll launch early and often, the market has spoken.
- Retr0id 2y agoWe have constructed a society where market forces feel inevitable, but it doesn't have to be that way.
- ddalex 2y agoOf course; but this is the current society, and attempts to reform it, e.g. communism, failed abjectly, so by evolution pressure, the capitalist society dominated by market forces is the best that we have
- Retr0id 2y agoRight, but there are plenty of middle grounds between true communism and just letting markets freewheel.
- amunozo 2y agoAnd places with these systems are those that achieved the best quality of life and peace.
- xvector 2y agoThere's no evidence that this fearmongering over safety is actually correct. The worst thing you can do is pummel an emerging technology into the grave because of misplaced fear. Just take a look at how many everyday things were "incredibly dangerous for society" - https://pessimistsarchive.org/ https://pessimistsarchive.org/
- Retr0id 2y agoSpend any amount of time on mainstream social media and you'll see AI-generated media being shared credulously. It's not a hypothetical risk, it's already happening. Even if you're not convinced that it's dangerous, at the very least it's incredibly annoying. If someone dumped a trailer full of trash in your garden, you're not going to say "oh well, market forces compelled them to do that".
- xvector 2y agoEh, growing pains.