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Re:YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters by sanxiyn on Thursday June 23, 2022 @10:01AM (#31849244)
OpenAI published "Lessons Learned on Language Model Safety and Misuse" in March. https://openai.com/blog/language-model-safety-and-misuse/ It also promised "forthcoming publication".

Examples of "real cases of misuse encountered in the wild" include "spam promotions for dubious medical products and roleplaying of racist fantasies".

Yes, some bad actors can train their own models, but OpenAI can't do much about that either way. It is doubtful whether spam promoters of dubious medical products can, at least for a while.

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Re:YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters by true_religion on Thursday June 23, 2022 @02:42PM (#31853453)
It would be better for misuse to be criminalized and taken care of by national governments, rather than leave it to for-profit companies to decide what is or isn't "misuse".

Personally, I think using AI to manufacture advertisements on demand is misuse... but will Google agree with me?

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Re:YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters by frozencell on Friday June 24, 2022 @12:40AM (#31857869)
National governments are often the criminals themselves, or their partner.
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