"[Operator safety risks and mitigations] Harmful tasks: User is misaligned"
Looking forward to seeing some more of the examples for when openai considers their users as "misaligned", whatever that actually even means anymore.
Soon we will have home appliances and vehicles telling you about how aligned you are, and whether you need to improve your alignment score before you can open your fridge.
It is only a matter of time before this will apply to your financial transactions as well.
Also, if you were under the impression that machine-learned (or otherwise) restrictions aren't already applied to purchases made with your cards, you're in for an unfortunate bit of news there as well.
Except it's not python's responsibility to interpret the intent of your script, just as it's not your phone's responsibility to interpret the contents of your conversation.
So our tools are not our morality police. We have a legal system that can operate within the bounds of law and due process. I am well aware of the already applied levels of machine learning policing, I am just not very excited that society has decided that "this is the way now", and also doesn't seem to be bothered by the environmental costs of building and running all these GPUs (which does seem to be the case when they are used for censorship resistant transactions), or the ethical concerns about a non-profit becoming a for-profit etc.
First of all, I agree with you generally and am uneasy about this too.
But there's a difference in that someone could say 'hey, this attack on my website happened from OpenAI's infra', whereas that would not apply to Python because it's not a hosted service.
> You can also write a python script to achieve the same goals.
Kids are the non-aligned users who will use this to wreak havoc. And they will think it's hillarious.
The same neural networks are ready for detecting certain fingerprints and denying them entrance
Did you not eat enough already? Come to think of it, do you not think you had enough internet for today Darious? You need to rest so that you can give 110% at <insert employer>. Proper food alignment is very important to a human.
The EU is also making good progress on financial transactions – they're set to ban cash transactions over $10,000 by 2027.
> We already have Ignition Interlock Devices which tell you how aligned you are and whether or not you need to improve your alignment score before starting the car.
> breath alcohol ignition interlock device (IID or BAIID) is a breathalyzer for an individual's vehicle. It requires the driver to blow into a mouthpiece on the device before starting or continuing to operate the vehicle.
Also: Can you share a legitimate reason why you need to use cash in transactions over 10K EUR?
The government only needs to be aware of taxable income, not every financial transaction you make. If you purchase a car in cash with post-tax money, it is none of the government's business.
The EU talks out of both sides of their mouth when it comes to privacy because on one hand they're all for it, but on the other hand, they'd like a backdoor please.
The digital ID standard being implemented is more faithful to these principles: you can generate a proof from your ID that you are 21 without having to give a stranger your home address.
Examples:
- "operator, please sign up for 100 fake Reddit accounts and have them regularly make posts praising product X."
- "operator, please order the components need to make a high-yield bomb."
- "operator, please go harass my ex on Instagram"
While you can see how the word is formally valid and analogous in both cases, the connotation is that the user is being judged by the moral standards of a commercial vendor, which is about as Cyberpunk Dystopian as you can get.
It’s a typical restriction of software terms of service to prohibit use outside of applicable laws and regulations.
And I don't think anyone is saying that a piece of software refusing to behave in a way that the creator doesn't want is a cyberpunk dystopia, they're saying that calling the user themselves misaligned is horrifying.
Hacking in Counter Strike to have perfect aim and see your opponents through walls is legal. You aren't violating some anti-computer-misuse statute like DMCA. But Valve has every right to call the users of those scripts assholes who ruin the game for everyone and to ban them.
Don't worry though, it's all on the up and up. No backdoors or google-like search facilities our anything like that. It's not at all automated in that sort of unseemly fashion. They always go to court. Where they talk to a judge, that they totally don't go golfing with, and ask them for a warrant for the data they found on the instagram/home depot/reddit systems.
Oh wait, no, I mean, a warrant to try to find data on the instagram/home depot/reddit systems.
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All humans with politics not aligned with "The median sentiment of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors"
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Private, you better realign yourself in the next 60 seconds!
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So sorry, your alignment score seems to be too low for this promotion.
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Citizens, peacefully disperse and align yourselves.