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> It’s next to impossible for individuals to assess the benefit or harm of chatbots and agents through self-experimentation. These tools trigger a number of bia
by benterix 1y ago
> It’s next to impossible for individuals to assess the benefit or harm of chatbots and agents through self-experimentation. These tools trigger a number of biases and effects that cloud our judgement. Generative models also have a volatility of results and uneven distribution of harms, similar to pharmaceuticals, that mean it’s impossible to discover for yourself what their societal or even organisational impact will be.
Yeah, but so do people.
- mwcampbell 1y agoIt should be uncontroversial to say that we understand the failure modes of working with other people much better, because we have millennia of experience with that.
- benterix 1y agoAnd yet we still have communication problems, misunderstandings, people consciously abusing other people, people subconsciously abusing other people, people falling for all possible traps, educated people falling for populist propaganda and so on. So while your point is valid, I'd say that (1) the experience of humanity doesn't extrapolate to individual experience, (2) as LLMs are trained on the same texts that humans produced, the actual experience is not that much different.