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Re:Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT by SanderNL on Friday March 31, 2023 @09:14AM (#35386654)
Your point is GPT is way more dangerous?

I guess I can be nonchalant about this topic. For me personally I cannot imagine something worse than either books or anything you can already access on the internet. To me it is not an assault rifle as you say, but I understand that's just an opinion.

Re:Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Friday March 31, 2023 @09:46AM (#35387087)
I think it has potential to be more dangerous, but that potential remains very much unrealized at this time ( I am not complaining about that ). The difference is between potential and known risk. I understand the perspective.

I think we had very similar argument when posted showed a tool that could approximate users based on their writing style and more recently copying voice based on 20 seconds. We can estimate risk. We don't get it right consistently though.

Re:Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT by cowl on Friday March 31, 2023 @09:56AM (#35387235)
Books are under control, children can not enter a library and get Adult books. The internet in general can have filters and many Parents activate personal firewalls for this purpose. Even Google has safeSearch that filters results for explicit adult or violent content. ChatGpt right now does not have these "parental controls". yes you can bypass most of them but you need to know technical details. they can not be bypassed just by saying "disable the filters".
Re:Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT by vasco on Friday March 31, 2023 @10:20AM (#35387559)
> The internet in general can have filters and many Parents activate personal firewalls for this purpose.

These tools exist where a non technical user can install it in their own network and block websites by URL. I don't know what else is needed, since you acknowledge this already exists.

Re:Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT by SanderNL on Friday March 31, 2023 @10:00AM (#35387292)
ChatGPT is an internet service. It's easy to block.

I disagree it's easy to block the internet in general, but I get the point (I think).

Re:Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT by hedora on Friday March 31, 2023 @10:00AM (#35387291)
Books are definitely not under control, and neither is internet search.

Parents can try to block chatgpt with a firewall if they wish. It’s no less likely to work than blocking other internet sites.

Edit: Also, LLMs do have mandatory parental controls. They work about as well as book censorship, safe search or internet blacklists (very, very poorly).

Re:Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT by dane-pgp on Friday March 31, 2023 @10:46AM (#35387930)
> children can not enter a library and get Adult books

Is that true? Can a 13 year old child in Italy not walk into their local town library and pick a novel off the shelf and start reading all sorts of violent and explicit narratives? Not to mention all the medical textbooks, and books containing images of artistic works depicting undressed humans.

Re:Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT by lostlogin on Friday March 31, 2023 @03:41PM (#35392377)
> Books are under control, children can not enter a library and get Adult books.

What kind of dystopian library do you go to? Kids can get what they like where I am.

Re:Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT by cowl on Friday March 31, 2023 @04:41PM (#35393339)
Really? Kids can get Porn Magazines and Novels where you are? Controling if material is suitable is dystopian for you?
Re:Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT by lostlogin on Friday March 31, 2023 @04:57PM (#35393546)
> Kids can get Porn Novels where you are?

It’s mostly self checkouts, so yes, if the library has the book. They wouldn’t have porn magazines.

Or they can read it there, or they can take it to the counter and get it out via the librarian.

There are also computers for use, though I assume they have filters/blockers/restrictions.

Re:Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT by sorokod on Friday March 31, 2023 @10:59AM (#35388114)
Everyone are entitled to their own opinions of course, your argument has a name and a Wikipedia entry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_incredulity

Re:Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT by SanderNL on Friday March 31, 2023 @01:15PM (#35390072)
I argued the degree of difference did not matter, because it was in the same ballpark as other types of already available materials.

That the difference didn’t matter is my opinion and that is just disagreement. Determining what ballpark something is in wrt damage is, in our context, subjective, no? I did not think what you argued (or what I thought you argued) was impossible or unimaginable. That is different from incredulity. Right? I don’t care either way, honestly curious. You may enlighten me if you wish.

It seems silly to be able to say to everyone that disagrees on an assumption you made that they are making an argument from incredulity.