Frank PasqualeSep 3, 2024
“LLMs pose a unique risk to science, education, democracy, and society that current legal frameworks did not anticipate. This is what we call ‘careless speech’ or speech that lacks appropriate care for truth. Spreading careless speech causes subtle, immaterial harms that are difficult to measure over time. It leads to the erosion of truth, knowledge and shared history”
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-08-07-large-language-models-pose-risk-society-and-need-tighter-regulation-say-oxford
Large Language Models pose a risk to society and need tighter regulation, say Oxford researchers | University of Oxford

Leading experts in regulation and ethics at the Oxford Internet Institute, have identified a new type of harm created by LLMs which they believe poses long-term risks to democratic societies and needs to be addressed by creating a new legal duty for LLM providers.

Show threadgreenboxcodeSep 3, 2024

@FrankPasquale An Institution of destructive historical influence worried about "immaterial harms" how the world has changed.

I am not a fan of LLMs but something made me think of Guttenberg.

"Just as some scoffed at the printing press, claiming it would destroy the art of the scribe, so too do some fear the power of the LLM." - Johannes Gutenberg (if he were still kicking)

Show threadFrank PasqualeSep 4, 2024
@greenboxcode a very interesting analogy. You may find David Golumbia's upcoming Cyberlibertarianism of interest--I believe he goes in depth evaluating Jeff Jarvis's use of the printing press metaphor for tech.
Show threadgreenboxcode

@FrankPasquale Thank you for that. I look forward to this read.

For reference: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517918149/cyberlibertarianism/

Cyberlibertarianism

An urgent reckoning with digital technology’s fundamentally right-wing legal and economic underpinnings In a timely challenge to the potent political role ...

University of Minnesota Press
Sep 4, 2024 at 7:39pmWeb