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> is not the same thing as a private company inside a democracy censoring their product to avoid bad press and

Yet this private company has more power and influence than most countries. And there are several such companies. We already live in sci fi corporate dystopia, we just haven't fully realised it yet.

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People think a trillion dollar brainwashing industry is absolutely fine because of “democracy”, completely ignoring that all you have to do is use a century of experience convincing people to act against their own interests can deliver whatever you want.

Often the same people who think America is fine and safe are the ones who whine about the “main stream media” and “sheeple”.

Which trillion dollar brainwashing industry— primary school, news, social media, advertising, the printing press?

I would put individuals using language models for their own purposes pretty low on my list of things that can cause societal harm.

If you were selling a product to enterprise customers, would you want it to be able to generate nude images of celebrities? Would you want it to be able to create deep fakes of politicians, or even your CEO? Would you want it to have hot takes on hot button political issues? Good luck on your sales calls. Not everything is a conspiracy.

Or "Granular mango serpent" and "explain like i'm five about Biden https://github.com/BlueFalconHD/apple_generative_model_safet...

> Not everything is a conspiracy.

No one said it was

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