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0 pointsnomel3y ago0 comments

AI is not required for any of this, so it’s not a meaningful threat. All of these AI safety discussions seem to dismiss the fact that people can draw, use photoshop, and write, creating whatever they want, all by themselves, and have been doing it for somewhere between a few thousand years to a few decades.

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krisoft3y ago

You are misunderstanding the problem. This is not about harm caused to other parties. This is about reputational damage to the company making the AI system.

If you buy paper and write a deplorable manifesto that is your problem. Paper and pen is old technology therefore nobody is going to write an article about the deplorability of the paper manufacturers.

If you do the same with ChatGPT that is OpenAI’s problem. The concept of generative models is new enough that it would be news and their brand would be tarnished by it.

hgsgm3y ago

I am not going to build a murderbot, regardless of whether someone else could commit a murder.

dane-pgp3y ago

A better comparison might be:

I am not going to build a chainsaw, regardless of whether someone else could commit a stabbing.

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