Don RudoFeb 13
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“People tell chatbots about their medical fears, their relationship problems, their beliefs about God and the afterlife.

Advertising built on that archive creates a potential for manipulating users in ways we don’t have the tools to understand, let alone prevent.”

https://globalnews.ca/news/11664538/anthropic-ai-safety-researcher-mrinank-sharma-quits-concerns/

#Privacy #NoAI

Anthropic AI safety researcher quits, says the ‘world is in peril’

Anthropic was founded in 2021 by a breakaway group of former OpenAI employees who pledged to design a more safety-centric approach to AI development.

Global News
Feb 13 at 6:43amWeb
Show threadlobsterFeb 13

@Em0nM4stodon

Oh I am in trouble? Thank god, COD and Zeus whose tagging (writing on the wall) I saw yesterday.

Show threadleberschnitzelFeb 13
@Em0nM4stodon THIS is the way AI can destroy the world. Not taking over Nuclear Silos or whatever.
Show threadNeil MoffattFeb 13
@Em0nM4stodon Beyond grim - that deeply intrusive, manipulative access in the wrong, powerful hands.
Show threadtichoFeb 13

@Em0nM4stodon I mean, better late than never, but this kind of realization should have come years ago for these people.

Years ago, it was already abundantly clear that these companies do not care about copyright, user privacy, environment, or, well, anything besides their profits, market share, and bullshit metrics like "engagement".

I wouldn't be surprised if at least one of them had a book deal in the pipeline, to squeeze just a little more money out.

Show threadRegFeb 13
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Show threadAnders Cornelius MadsenFeb 13

@Em0nM4stodon

Remember kids, this is why we run our LLMs locally. They definitely have their use, but treat them like a more sophisticated search engine and you'll be fine.

Show threadIarlaiṫFeb 13

@Em0nM4stodon using social media data it was possible to dupe a country into leaving the EU and convincing even more that immigrants are somehow to blame for bad governance.

We should definitely be worried for what’s coming next.

Show threadOoze 𓁟Feb 13
@Em0nM4stodon This is about the epidemic of loneliness. So many people are so thoroughly alone that even a chatbot is better than the ache of being alone.
Show threadunawarewolf 🐺Feb 13
@Em0nM4stodon
"I have finished my AI safety research, and found the answer to be NO!"
Show threadDavid PeachFeb 13

@Em0nM4stodon I'm surprised that people are surprised by ads in these things.

its by the playbook.

Show threadMr. Lance E Sloan (IRL) 👤Feb 13
@Em0nM4stodon
Maybe it's time I should flood some AIs with information about #apatheticAgnosticism to counteract the typical #theism.
Show threadAleksandr KoltsoffFeb 13

@Em0nM4stodon ".. grave concern about the erosion of guiding principles established to preserve the integrity of AI .."

The what now?

Show threadPaul HanrahanFeb 14
@Em0nM4stodon targeting ads based on search history is one level. Having a fake psychologist that targets ads at you is a whole-nother-level.
Show threadEdelruth, PBS Passport HolderFeb 15

@Em0nM4stodon

So, which is more disturbing, the topics people talk about to some computer code, or the fact that we know what those topics are, when the people probably thought they were speaking privately?

I think it's the fact that we know

Also, the concerns re manipulating in the article.

Show threadCaitlinmonsterFeb 18

@Em0nM4stodon @patrickhadfield

I wrote a thing related to that

https://www.caitlinsteele.com/on-extraction-and-innovation-startups-arent-bee-colonies/

On Extraction and Innovation: Startups Aren’t Bee Colonies

The first time I approached a beehive, I was nineteen, dressed in a crisp new white bee suit at Cal Poly’s apiary, smoker in hand for my beekeeping class. Dozens of stacked brood boxes stood out in the orchard on the northwest corner of campus. The roar of a

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