I guess I can be nonchalant about this topic. For me personally I cannot imagine something worse than either books or anything you can already access on the internet. To me it is not an assault rifle as you say, but I understand that's just an opinion.
Parents can try to block chatgpt with a firewall if they wish. It’s no less likely to work than blocking other internet sites.
Edit: Also, LLMs do have mandatory parental controls. They work about as well as book censorship, safe search or internet blacklists (very, very poorly).
I disagree it's easy to block the internet in general, but I get the point (I think).
These tools exist where a non technical user can install it in their own network and block websites by URL. I don't know what else is needed, since you acknowledge this already exists.
Is that true? Can a 13 year old child in Italy not walk into their local town library and pick a novel off the shelf and start reading all sorts of violent and explicit narratives? Not to mention all the medical textbooks, and books containing images of artistic works depicting undressed humans.
What kind of dystopian library do you go to? Kids can get what they like where I am.
It’s mostly self checkouts, so yes, if the library has the book. They wouldn’t have porn magazines.
Or they can read it there, or they can take it to the counter and get it out via the librarian.
There are also computers for use, though I assume they have filters/blockers/restrictions.
I think we had very similar argument when posted showed a tool that could approximate users based on their writing style and more recently copying voice based on 20 seconds. We can estimate risk. We don't get it right consistently though.
That the difference didn’t matter is my opinion and that is just disagreement. Determining what ballpark something is in wrt damage is, in our context, subjective, no? I did not think what you argued (or what I thought you argued) was impossible or unimaginable. That is different from incredulity. Right? I don’t care either way, honestly curious. You may enlighten me if you wish.
It seems silly to be able to say to everyone that disagrees on an assumption you made that they are making an argument from incredulity.