Comment by tjwebbnorfolk
Comment by tjwebbnorfolk 2 days ago
LLMs generate text. It is people who decide what to do with it.
Removing all personal responsibility from this equation isn't going to solve anything.
Comment by tjwebbnorfolk 2 days ago
LLMs generate text. It is people who decide what to do with it.
Removing all personal responsibility from this equation isn't going to solve anything.
If you were offended by that comment, I apologize. You're 99.99% not the problem and infighting gets us nowhre.
But you may indeed be vying against your best interests. Hope you can take some time to understand where you lie in life and if your society is really benefiting you.
I am not offended. And I'll be the one to judge my own best interests. (back to: "personal responsibility"). e.g. I have more information about my own life than you or anyone else, and so am best situated to make decisions for myself about my own beliefs.
For instance I work for one of the companies that produces some of the most popular LLMs in use today. And I certainly have a stake in them performing well and being useful.
But your line of reasoning would have us believe that Henry Ford is a mass murderer due to the number of vehicular deaths each year, or that the wright brothers bear some responsibility for 9/11. They should have foreseen that people would fly their planes into buildings, of course.
If you want to blame someone for LLMs hurting people, we really need to go all the way back to Alan Turing -- without him these people would still be alive!
>It is people who decide what to do with it.
That argument is rather naive, given that millenia of law is meant to regulate and disincentivize behavior. "If people didn't get mad they wouldn't murder!"
We've regulated public messages for decades, and for good reason. I'm not absolving them this time because they want to hide behind a chatbot. They have blood on their hands.