But how will we ensure human CEOs are properly aligned? We can't fine tune them, inspect their internals, or repeatedly assess their behavior in isolated containers.
...can we?
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...can we?
Memes (the original kind) exist in a fast paced hypercompetitive environment now. Every single piece of information is delivered over the internet, sorted by algorithm, prioritized by recency and views and likes and shares, among others. Absent from the list is "veracity". It was always true that "a lie circles the globe while the truth is putting on its shoes" but now the truth is lucky to leave the house at all.
"The first copyright privilege in England bears date 1518 and was issued to Richard Pynson, King's Printer, the successor to William Caxton. The privilege gives a monopoly for the term of two years. The date is 15 years later than that of the first privilege issued in France. Early copyright privileges were called "monopolies," particularly during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, who frequently gave grants of monopolies in articles of common use, such as salt, leather, coal, soap, cards, beer, and wine. The practice was continued until the Statute of Monopolies was enacted in 1623, ending most monopolies, with certain exceptions, such as patents; after 1623, grants of letters patent to publishers became common...
As the "menace" of printing spread, governments established centralized control mechanisms,[19] and in 1557 the English Crown thought to stem the flow of seditious and heretical books by chartering the Stationers' Company. The right to print was limited to the members of that guild, and thirty years later the Star Chamber was chartered to curtail the "greate enormities and abuses" of "dyvers contentyous and disorderlye persons professinge the arte or mystere of pryntinge or selling of books." The right to print was restricted to two universities and to the 21 existing printers in the city of London, which had 53 printing presses. The French crown also repressed printing, and printer Etienne Dolet was burned at the stake in 1546. As the English took control of type founding in 1637, printers fled to the Netherlands. Confrontation with authority made printers radical and rebellious, and 800 authors, printers and book dealers were incarcerated in the Bastille before it was stormed in 1789.[19]"
So, to summarize: the principle of copyright came from monarchic economic protectionism and censorship. I will freely admit I didn't know this piece of history before this thread - I simply predicted it, correctly, from first principles.
Also, I'd be careful at taking the reasoning of political documents at face value. Many items in the Constitution are post-hoc, Lockeian/liberal justifications for a social order that was in fact largely copied over wholesale from English parliamentary monarchy, with surprisingly few tweaks.
Hard to get worked up over "3rd parties" when even 1st parties cheerfully stomp all over the interests of their users. That ship sailed, caught fire, and sank to the bottom of the ocean the day Candy Crush appeared in the goddamned Start menu.
>Palantir Technologies [built] Maven into a targeting infrastructure that pulls together satellite imagery, signals intelligence and sensor data to identify targets and carry them through every step from first detection to the order to strike.
>The building in Minab had been classified as a military facility in a Defense Intelligence Agency database that, according to CNN, had not been updated to reflect that the building had been separated from the adjacent Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps compound and converted into a school, a change that satellite imagery shows had occurred by 2016 at the latest. A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blam...
Lest we forget, "Attention is All You Need" came from Google.
"We don't just "laugh" anymore. We collapse, or internally scream".
"They need a pulse and a soul — not the cold precision of industrial CAD models"
It's everywhere now and no one seems to notice. Sometimes I feel like the guy in They Live (1988) with the glasses.
Meanings do indeed shift, especially when terms become euphemisms for other less savory terms. "Moderation" sounds much nicer than "censorship", and you may be right to fight a rearguard action at preserving the nuances of each term, but in the end they're both subsets of "information control". People say "moderation" when they want to imply that the control is good, and "censorship" when they want it to sound bad.
Neither of your definitions of "censorship" amd "moderation" fit cleanly into a discussion about controlling the dialogue between a human and their private LLM. There is no publishing of information, and no channel whose tone must be maintained. It is about control of what the LLM says in private - in particular, it is about preventing it from saying certain things, before it says them. It is close to "censorship" by your definition, but because the thing being censored is not human, we need not speak of fines, or pre-publication vetting - it is simply a question of controlling the output of a computer program, impossible without a total lockdown on general purpose computing.
I think we should default to "information control is bad" and only allow exceptions in well supported exceptional circumstances, because the consequence of allowing systems more control over information than humans is that the systems fail to reflect the interests of the humans that constitute them, in favor of their own self preservation.
Is that likely, do you think?
2) You can't use Bluetooth earbuds like everyone else?
3) I'm sure your infant child will appreciate their representation in Meta's training data.
You might argue they're still capped at the "best" quality seen in the input. Not so. Take typos. Human text has a certain base rate of typographical errors. LLM output contains almost none. Why? Because there are many more ways to be wrong than right. LLMs are not just averaging machines, they also denoise. That should also give you pause.
These large, persistent gaps matter to the mobile and web ecosystems because Apple is unique in denying access to more capable, less-buggy engines and actively erecting unlawful barriers to choice when forced by legislation to enable it. This is accomplished through eye-watering budgets for legal shenanigans, direct lobbying, and well-heeled astroturf front groups to maintain a capability gap between web and native.4
That chasm is instrumental in trapping users and developers in the extractive vice of Cupertino's App Store. A persistent, material gap in capabilities creates a perception of the web being less-than; a budget option for the unserious. Should users choose more capable, more private, less buggy browsers for a larger share of their computing needs, Apple might lose the leverage that enables it to extract rents.
Sure I can, if they - or you - pretend "the entire point" is about useful security work rather than expensive loss-leading marketing and demand creation.
We shouldn't look at this and think "wow AI is super useful for security". We should look and this and think "wow, there's a LOT of capital going into persuading us that AI is super useful for security".
THAT is "the entire point".
Zuckerberg: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuckerberg: Just ask
Zuckerberg: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuckerberg: People just submitted it.
Zuckerberg: I don't know why.
Zuckerberg: They "trust me"
Zuckerberg: Dumb fucks2. We have to look forwards, not backwards. Yesterday contained the seeds of today. Today contains the seeds of tomorrow. No point rewinding unless you want history to repeat.
Incidentally, the comment immediately below this one begins with the words "I'm curious". So I think we're good.