I saw a big drama about a new AI word game.
People said it was ethical AI, that it was "harmless" and "just for fun" and didn't infringe on anyone.
You play it by combining two words to make a new word, e.g "Water" + "Fire" makes "Steam", "Shark" + "Hurricane" makes "Sharknado", etc.
I went to play it myself and sure enough, it seemed harmless and the endless combinations were fun.
Then I found that "Palestine" + "Child" makes "Terrorist".
Meta has been censoring criticism of zionism and the genocide, so I don't have any hope that they'll fix the issue.
[ETA: Neal responded, he's doing his best to fix the biases in the game! The problem still isn't really the game tho]
It feels like we're heading into a future where unsuspecting devs building on the tech will unintentionally amplify the values of the billionaires making it.
Today it's slandering Palestinians during their genocide. What comes tomorrow? This is all so dystopian.
I dunno if the game dev *could* fix it. I mean, they could fix this particular one, but the thing calls itself "infinite" for a reason. There's no way they could fix every single case individually; there are far too many, and more will keep popping up. But I doubt there's a general rule that would work very well, either. What would it even vaguely look like?
They probably even do have some layer that filters out slurs or whatever. Which, they had better do, because that's both vital and relatively easy. Wouldn't catch something like "Palestinian" and "child" that way, though.
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