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Re:Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” by wtetzner on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @02:16PM (#34809065)
Yeah, I think the reason it can be harmful is different from what people initially envision.

These systems can be dangerous because people might trust them when they shouldn't. It's not really any different from a program that just generates random text, except that the output seems intelligent, thus causing people to trust it more than a random stream of text.

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Re:Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” by JohnFen on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @05:14PM (#34811489)
I completely agree with this. I think the risk of potential harm from these programs is not around the programs themselves, but around how people react to them. It's why I am very concerned when I see people ascribing attributes to them that they simply don't have.
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