Comment by sillyfluke | Hacker News Reader

Comment by sillyfluke | Hacker News Reader

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>Because AI genuinely is an extremely powerful and extremely dangerous

I urge you to consider the elephant in the room you failed to mention if you earnestly believe this then.

In what world is anyone allowed to sell something they expressedly know to be "extremely dangerous" to the public?

Let's say I created a lethal pathogen that I know to be lethal in certain common environments but also know it acts as a "no side-effects" antidepressent for people in certain other environments and I release it knowing full well I can't control it.

When people start dying can I defend myself by saying, "Well I said and documented that it was extremely dangerous and no one came to stop me, so I don't see how you can blame me...If I didn't do it someone else would have."

this happens all the time. have you heard of the Sackler family and the opioid crisis?

the difference here is that they’re calling for someone to stop them, which is both weird and unconvincing because these immensely powerful billionaires can in fact make their own decisions

>the difference here is that they’re calling for someone to stop them

Jesus Christ, that's my entire point. it's not remotely the same thing since the Sackler family wasn't going around telling people opoids were extremely dangerous while pushing them on everyone.

The point is if they know something to be extremely dangerous and keep doing it people would expect them to get prosecuted.

Is it a hallucination machine and a stochastic parrot or is it so powerful we need it to be controlled like nuclear weaponry

If I have a random number generator and I also have the burning desire to connect the random number generator to the nuclear launch system it is both just a random number generator and also I should be tackled to the ground by serious men with sunglasses in black suits and sent to prison.

a hallucination machine on an infinite loop and infinite tokens is a dangerous combination.

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