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On one hand, the media hammered OpenAI for not doing enough to protect people from the possible harms of AI. Then OpenAI takes steps to mitigate those risks, a
by Esophagus4 1y ago
On one hand, the media hammered OpenAI for not doing enough to protect people from the possible harms of AI.
Then OpenAI takes steps to mitigate those risks, and it becomes a salacious story as well.
Society having no idea what to expect from these tools makes this a difficult situation for LLM providers.
- ep103 1y agoIt wouldn't be a difficult situation if these guys were ethical shops from the get-go, but they aren't, they're trying to staple minimally required ethics on afterwards, and it shows.
- Ajedi32 1y agoLLMs are not moral agents. Any attempt to make them behave that way will necessarily be "staple[ed] on afterwards".
- Esophagus4 1y agoTo play devil’s advocate, what ethical safeguards are OpenAI responsible for that they have failed to implement? This is a wild and difficult to understand technology, even for the people building it. And their safeguards are constantly evolving. I think you’re attributing to malice what should be attributed to people commercializing a novel technology that is, frankly, being exploited by users.
- pavel_lishin 1y agoI'm not the person you're responding to, but I'm more than happy to attribute it to incompetence. But I don't think that's quite the slam-dunk defense that they're looking for.
- Esophagus4 1y agoI get that argument, but I also don’t think that’s quite fair. If OpenAI, the market leader with the field’s top talent lured by eye watering pay packages, isn’t competent, then no one really is.
- oceanplexian 1y ago> On one hand, the media hammered OpenAI for not doing enough How about ignore the increasingly irrelevant mainstream media and do what you feel is right?
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- nickthegreek 1y agoYou dont have to take sides on the political seesaw to understand that mainstream media is becoming more irrelevant to large sects of society. You might have a take that its a bad or good thing.. but it is true. There is no longer a vast mono-culture, and with it's loss, a fractured sense of reality amongst the inhabitants.
- const_cast 1y agoLack of mainstream media doesn't mean the death of monoculture - were seeing a huge resurgence in populist messaging over the past 10 years. Its aided by the distributed nature of the internet.
- nickthegreek 1y agoThese are large disparate groups that are rarely exposed to others thoughts and understandings. It is wholly different than the media giants and their control of monoculture prior. It’s rare that we even ever have a tv show that a majority has watched together.
- Esophagus4 1y agoHuh? You watch too much TV - there are plenty of decent news sources that publish concerned pieces about OpenAI’s effects on society at large. And it is obviously having an effect on OpenAI as well.