It also feeds into the idea of censorship and lets degenerates gather like mold away from the light festering and growing in numbers until suddenly you have an outbreak at opportune moments.
Making an AI that knows what racism is without displaying racism itself, does not seem like the sort of thing which would make this problem worse.
What would be really good is if the general pattern can be found for everything from religious wars and ethnonationalism down to football riots, not just building filters one at a time for each specific instance of -ism as product owners get sued over them.
Because that's what GPT-3 is used for, it's not supposed to be an unbiased reflection of society or whatever you think it is.
I think you might be confused about the subject here.
> Because that's what GPT-3 is used for
not "the discourse of everyday people"
> What makes the HN interesting is sharing ideas
Which at least occasionally have to be new ideas. If every conversation ends up on free speech absolutism, even when there literally isn't a person generating the speech, there aren't any new ideas being shared.
Disagree. "Safe spaces" are bubbles of like-thinkers, else they wouldn't be "safe". People in such bubbles tend to drift to extremes due to the lack of external constraint. Within the bubble any other opinions seem extreme.
GPT-3 is not an "everyday people", we don't have sentient AI and laws making robots defacto people just quite yet
except "men", which it does currently.
For whatever reason, for me the #2 autocomplete in Google for "kill all" is "artists".
I don't disagree that things like QAnon gather steam outside the mainstream, but I don't think mainstreaming them is the right solution. I remember Reddit before it started to clean up its house. It was worse.
And yet that was the time when reddit was considered more balanced and open. People gathered there to discuss ideas. The future of the platform looked great. Nowadays virtually all popular subreddits are considered echo chambers and the future for the platform looks questionable.
Not with the subreddits it was hosting it didn't. The future of Reddit looked unviable as a business. I won't name names, but it's obvious that some of the content was wholly incompatible with mainstream acceptance and for good reason.