Timnit Gebru (she/her).Its like a coordinated DDOS PR attack from these existential risk people and they're succeeding in making me constantly talk about them.
mempko@timnitGebru It is PR. I think it's an attempt at regulatory capture. Scare the public so that the government creates regulations that make it prohibitively expensive for others to compete (there is no moat, the math is not that hard). I mean, why would Sam Altman, a known prepper, who has a stash of guns, food, and land, backed by a monopolist like Microsoft, ask the government for regulations? The PR stunt is working too, people are freaking out.
@timnitGebru I do believe there are risks to the technology, but not because of the nature of the technology, but who is building it, trying to control it, and how they are using it. The risk to me are a few, deeply flawed (and biased) but widely used models controlled by a cartel. I've had a conversation about global warming with ChatGPT and it's amazing how much it tries to bring in a 'balanced' view by introducing denial arguments for example. Miss-information at scale!