The last ones are rather stupid too. Bad people can just write stories or creating drawings about disgusting things. Should we censor all computers to prevent such things from happening? Or hands and paper?
E.g. the set of those affected by TMMAT may hugely intersect with those who think it works. Which makes it objective but sort of self-bootstrapping. Isn’t it better to educate people about information and fallacies rather than protecting them from these for life.
The story itself is about someone attempting to educate their boss, and their boss subsequently getting fooled by it anyway — and the harm came to the one trying to do the educating, not the one who believed in the tiger.
I'm not sure it's even possible to fully remove this problem, even if we can minimise it — humans aren't able to access the ground truth of reality just by thinking carefully, we rely on others around us.
(For an extra twist: what if [the fear of misaligned AI] is itself the tiger?)
One can use paper and pen to write or draw something disturbing and distribute it through the internet. Should we censor the internet then? Put something on scanners and cameras so it donesn't capture such material?
Why don't we work to put a microchip on people's brains so they are prevented to use their creativity to write something disturbing?
We all want a safe society right? Sounds like a great idea.
About a century ago, people realised that CO2 was a greenhouse gas — they thought this would be good, because it was cold where they lived, and they thought it would take millennia because they looked at what had already been built and didn't extrapolate to everyone else copying them.
Your reply doesn't seem to acknowledge the "factory" part of "tiger factory".
AI is about automation, any given model is a tool that lets anyone do what previously needed expertise, or at least effort: in the past, someone pulled out and fired a gun because of the made-up "pizzagate" conspiracy theory; In the future, everyone gets to be Hillary Clinton for 15 minutes, only with Stable Diffusion putting your face in a perfectly customised video, and the video will come from a random bored teenager looking for excitement who doesn't even realise the harm they're causing.
We won't keep the bottle corked forever though. It's like we're just buying ourselves time to figure out how we're going to deal with the deluge of questionable generated content that's about to hit us.