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0 pointshypeatei2mo ago0 comments

> to be able to do unreasonable things while having a smokescreen

Maybe, but I feel like the calculus remains unchanged for professions that already lack accountability (police, military, C-suite, three letter agencies, etc.); LLMs are yet another tool in their toolbox to obfuscate but they were going to do that anyway.

Peons will continue to face consequences and sanctions if they screw up by using hallucinated output.

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lazide2mo ago

all of those professions definitely have accountability - per the nominal rules of the system. Often extremely severe accountability.

The actual systems do everything they can to avoid that accountability, including often violating the rules themselves, or corrupting enforcement, for exactly the reasons why corporations are trying to avoid accountability too.

Accountability is expensive, and way less convenient than doing whatever you want whenever you want.

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lazide2mo ago

all of those professions definitely have accountability - per the nominal rules of the system. Often extremely severe accountability.

Accountability is expensive, and way less convenient than doing whatever you want whenever you want.

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