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Alternatively, would you rather a world with 80% functionality safely, or a world with 100% functionality with people you don’t trust doing malicious things?

One is clearly the least worst

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Any image an AI can generate could just as easily be drawn or painted by one of the tens of millions of competent artists in the world.

However it can't be produced at the same scale and flood the Internet with misinformation or disturbing imagery at the same rate

>flood the Internet with misinformation

After the past few years… anyone who can seriously complain about this seems like their identity is wrapped up in not admitting that the worst “misinformation” didn’t come from bad apples - but official sources.

Yea it would be really bad if the internet was flooded with misinformation or disturbing imagery. Just imagine that!

> at the same rate

Actually I'm not sure it's clear which is worse.

> Alternatively, would you rather a world with 80% functionality safely

Obviously this is preferable because safety is uniform in its application to everyone and universally agreed upon.

We must have different definitions of the word “clearly”. I’ll take that full model in a heartbeat, but I suspect many others would disagree.

I'd definitely prefer the latter. The damage that bad actors can do is often extremely limited, while the potential benefits of more capability are boundless.

Interesting question. We developed the whole concept of justice because this kind of abstract utilitarian morality doesn’t apply well. I’m all-in on justice. Give me the full model. I’m not doing anything wrong.

>would you rather a world with 80% functionality with people you don’t trust doing malicious things, or a world with 100% functionality with people you don’t trust doing malicious things?

The latter, obviously.

Karen delenda est.

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