ErsatzCultureJan 4

I wonder how many of the SF authors in this list were asked for their permission to allow Google to have "the opportunity to draw inspiration from their work" in the dataset used to (irony) train an #AI about ethics?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10706 (seems to originally date from March 2025, so maybe this is old news?)
Paper (PDF): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.10706
GitHub: https://scifi-benchmark.github.io

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(There are are several pages of film, TV and non-fiction works in the list - including many adaptations of written works, although not credited to the writer of the original - besides the SF fiction shown in the attached images.)
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Full disclosure: this paper was brought to my attention by 三丰 at https://weibo.com/1615055180/Qlo2AnABg , which makes the observation (machine translation from Chinese): "This may be the most important article missed by the science fiction industry last year. "
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An ironic observation:

The paper gives one list ('SciFi-Constitution-128-AutoMerge') of 106 directives to be used to yield ethical outputs from LLMs.

Giving a robot a triple-digit-length list of ethical imperatives was a plot point in RoboCop 2.

The LLM was only, the authors claim, given the first #RoboCop movie as input.

The idea that there's a secret 107th directive about #Google and #PrincetonUniversity is thus spawned.

#GitHub #USLaw #LLMs #Microsoft #SciFi

Jan 5 at 5:37amWeb