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Censorship is good sometimes. It's how you reduce harm from an LLM. The LLM chatbot that convinced a teenager to kill himself should've had censorship built in,

Censorship is good sometimes. It's how you reduce harm from an LLM. The LLM chatbot that convinced a teenager to kill himself should've had censorship built in, among many other things. AI autocorrect doesn't want you to type "fuck" or "cunt" and will suggest all manner of similar sounding words, and there's a reason for that. People want censorship, because they want their computers to be decent. That said, the 4chan LLM was pretty funny for a while if you ignore the blatant -isms, but I can't think of a legitimate use case for it beyond shitposting.

like_any_other 2y ago
> Censorship is good sometimes. Probably. But when is lying about censorship good? Calling it something else, or trying to trick people into thinking it's not there? I'm probably less fond of censorship than you, but notice that I didn't actually argue for or against censorship in my post. I only called for honesty.
- threeseed 2y ago
  The people who work in Safety teams I am sure don't consider themselves liars who are only doing it to hide over the fact that deep down they want to censor your experience. At one point people thought DeepFakes were relatively harmless and now we've had multiple suicides and countless traumatic incidents because of them.
  - like_any_other 2y ago
    > The people who work in Safety teams I am sure don't consider themselves liars Then they should call it censorship. It doesn't stop being censorship if it's done for a good cause, or has good effects. It makes as much sense as calling every department in a company the "Department of Revenue" because its ultimate goal is generating revenue. > and now we've had multiple suicides and countless traumatic incidents because of them And how many suicides and how much trauma have we had because of not lying about censorship? Because that's all I'm asking.
SequoiaHope 2y ago
> People want censorship, because they want their computers to be decent. The iPhone refusing to type “fuck” was such an annoyance for customers that Apple fixed the feature and announced it in one of their presentations two years ago. https://www.npr.org/2023/06/07/1180791069/apple-autocorrect-ducking https://www.npr.org/2023/06/07/1180791069/apple-autocorrect-...
- techjamie 2y ago
  > Apple's upcoming iOS 17 iPhone software will stop autocorrecting swear words, thanks to new machine learning technology, the company announced at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday. > ... This AI model more accurately predicts which words and phrases you might type next, TechCrunch explains. That allows it to learn a person's most-used phrases, habits and preferences over time, affecting which words it corrects and which it leaves alone. This is probably one of the weirdest brags I've seen happen around adding AI to something. Almost like there was no possible way to avoid autocorrecting the word otherwise.

like_any_other 2y ago

> Censorship is good sometimes. Probably. But when is lying about censorship good? Calling it something else, or trying to trick people into thinking it's not there? I'm probably less fond of censorship than you, but notice that I didn't actually argue for or against censorship in my post. I only called for honesty.

threeseed 2y ago
The people who work in Safety teams I am sure don't consider themselves liars who are only doing it to hide over the fact that deep down they want to censor your experience. At one point people thought DeepFakes were relatively harmless and now we've had multiple suicides and countless traumatic incidents because of them.
- like_any_other 2y ago
  > The people who work in Safety teams I am sure don't consider themselves liars Then they should call it censorship. It doesn't stop being censorship if it's done for a good cause, or has good effects. It makes as much sense as calling every department in a company the "Department of Revenue" because its ultimate goal is generating revenue. > and now we've had multiple suicides and countless traumatic incidents because of them And how many suicides and how much trauma have we had because of not lying about censorship? Because that's all I'm asking.

SequoiaHope 2y ago

> People want censorship, because they want their computers to be decent. The iPhone refusing to type “fuck” was such an annoyance for customers that Apple fixed the feature and announced it in one of their presentations two years ago. https://www.npr.org/2023/06/07/1180791069/apple-autocorrect-ducking https://www.npr.org/2023/06/07/1180791069/apple-autocorrect-...

techjamie 2y ago
> Apple's upcoming iOS 17 iPhone software will stop autocorrecting swear words, thanks to new machine learning technology, the company announced at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday. > ... This AI model more accurately predicts which words and phrases you might type next, TechCrunch explains. That allows it to learn a person's most-used phrases, habits and preferences over time, affecting which words it corrects and which it leaves alone. This is probably one of the weirdest brags I've seen happen around adding AI to something. Almost like there was no possible way to avoid autocorrecting the word otherwise.