Cassandra is only carbon nowYesterday, had an argument with an AI booster. I'm not going to link, both because I don't want to platform that and because I don't want anyone to go harass them. But what I thought was very interesting was that I asked point-blank if there was any degree to which ethical problems with LLMs could make them not want to use AI — they told me no, there was not, and implied that they evaluated AI purely on the basis of its efficacy.
leastaction@xgranade Its the government's job to regulate AI on an ethical basis, on behalf of all of us, because individually we don't have the power to do that, and the government represents the people in a democracy, and it does have the power. The fact that the government is not doing this at all shows to what extent we do not have a democracy. Not even close.
neongod@leastaction @xgranade it just shows that most people (represented by politicians) don’t care. They care much more about economic growth and their wealth then ethics. Also people in general are extremely lazy, which is why it is so tempting to use it and most are even willing to outsource their thinking to it.
@neongod @xgranade A lot depends on whether we see government regulation as an imposition by a powerful authority, or as a protection. In a democracy, government works *for* us, as per Lincoln's ddefinition. In a democracy ethics is a way we all protect each other.
We also have to be careful not to blame the victim, I think.