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Or stand together and demand the madness stops, rather than pretend there's nothing to do about it; which could actually help improve the situation.

The people involved in making these decisions deserve to be locked up for life, and I'm sure they will be eventually.

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The genie's out of the bottle. I think it's better that everyone have access to it, and are fully aware of its capabilities, rather than it being unknown to everyone and under the control of specific entities

>The genie's out of the bottle. I think it's better that everyone have access to it, and are fully aware of its capabilities, rather than it being unknown to everyone and under the control of specific entities

The majority of people only have access to proprietary models, whose weights and training are closed source. The prospect of a populace that all out source their thinking to Google's LLM is horrifying.

I agree.. but what's the solution there? Somehow enforce global regulation on it?

Why would this be a bad thing? You're acting like technology isn't already widely regulated.

Are there any grassroots(?) organizations doing activism such as FSF and ACLU in the AI space with local chapters? if not, it might be time for something like that, though with all the money flooding into LLMs (ignoring LLMs' manipulative power if it put its mind to it), we probably don't stand a chance.

Technological inevitability is a plague. There was a good article shared on HN about this the other day.

What new human madness has ever been stopped?

At risk of Godwinisation, there's a very obvious example.

Wouldn't exactly call that a grassroots effort, though...

As we are recently seeing, it was only paused temporarily.

Human cloning, nuclear bombs (other than for sabre rattling)... to name a couple.

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